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Abstract
The spread and consolidation of the women's movement in North and South over the past thirty years looks set to shape the course of social progress over the next generation. Peggy Antrobus draws on her long experience of feminist activism to set women's movements in their changing national and global context.
Peggy Antrobus has been employed in government and NGO programmes in St.Vincent, Jamaica and Barbados. She set up the Women and Development Unit within the School of Continuing Studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and was its head until her retirement in 1995. She was a founding member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action and DAWN, the network of Third World women promoting Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era.
'This is a must read for all activists, policy makers and scholars who care about the future of equity and justice in the world.'
Charlotte Bunch, Rutgers University
'A reflection on the international women's movement by one of its most important leaders is both timely and stimulating.'
Noeleen Heyzer, UNIFEM
'A fascinating book where the researcher and the activist come together to tell the history of a revolutionary movement that changed the way we think about gender and sexuality, social justice and human rights, the political economy and power.'
Carmen Barroso, Western Hemisphere Region
'This is a breath-taking attempt at documenting the challenges and triumphs of the Global Women's Movement over the past 30 years, and there are few women in this movement more qualified than Peggy Antrobus to take this on.'
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Women's Rights in Development
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| Abbreviations and acronyms | ix | ||
| Acknowledgements and -biographical note | x | ||
| Preface | xiii | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 | ||
| Notes | 8 | ||
| 2 | The global women’s movement: definitions and local origins | 9 | ||
| Definitions | 9 | ||
| Characteristics | 15 | ||
| Symbols and images | 21 | ||
| Origins | 23 | ||
| Conclusion | 24 | ||
| Notes | 25 | ||
| 3 | Global contexts for an emerging movement: the UN Development Decades, 1960s-1970s | 28 | ||
| International debates on socio-economic development (1960s-1970s) | 29 | ||
| The decade of the 1980s | 31 | ||
| The decade of the 1990s | 31 | ||
| Background to the Decade for Women (1975-85) | 33 | ||
| Conclusion | 34 | ||
| Notes | 35 | ||
| 4 | A Decade for Women: UN conferences, 1975-85 | 37 | ||
| The context for International Women’s Year (1975) | 38 | ||
| International Women’s Year (1975) | 41 | ||
| The Decade for Women (1975-85) | 46 | ||
| Mid-Decade (1980) | 49 | ||
| The second half of the Decade | 52 | ||
| Significance of the Decade for the global women’s movement | 59 | ||
| Conclusion | 62 | ||
| Postscript to the Decade: the Fourth World Conference on Women (1995) | 63 | ||
| Notes | 64 | ||
| 5 | The Lost Decade - the 1980s | 67 | ||
| The macro-economic policy framework of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) | 68 | ||
| Consequences of the policy framework of adjustment | 69 | ||
| SAPs and women’s movements | 72 | ||
| Conclusion | 78 | ||
| Notes | 79 | ||
| 6 | It’s about justice: feminist leadership making a difference on the world stage | 80 | ||
| Background to the global conferences of the 1990s | 80 | ||
| Economic justice: the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) | 82 | ||
| Gender justice | 91 | ||
| Political justice | 99 | ||
| Assessment of the global conferences of the 1990s | 102 | ||
| Conclusion | 104 | ||
| Notes | 106 | ||
| 7 | Political strategies and dynamics of women’s organizing and feminist activism | 109 | ||
| Activist strategies | 109 | ||
| Institutional strategies | 122 | ||
| Crosscutting strategies | 124 | ||
| Approaches to social change | 126 | ||
| Analysis of power | 131 | ||
| Lessons learned | 133 | ||
| Conclusion | 135 | ||
| Notes | 135 | ||
| 8 | The new context: challenges and dilemmas for the future | 137 | ||
| The context: then and now | 138 | ||
| Origins of the present conjuncture | 139 | ||
| Challenges of the present | 140 | ||
| Paradoxes and dilemmas | 156 | ||
| Conclusion | 161 | ||
| Notes | 162 | ||
| 9 | Leadership for moving forward | 164 | ||
| What kind of leadership? | 164 | ||
| Feminist leadership | 166 | ||
| Where might feminist leadership be found? | 175 | ||
| How might feminist leadership be renewed and strengthened? | 177 | ||
| The special role of leadership at the global level | 178 | ||
| Conclusion | 179 | ||
| Notes | 179 | ||
| 10 | Epilogue: is another world possible? | 181 | ||
| Notes | 186 | ||
| Bibliography | 187 | ||
| Selected women’s networks and websites | 189 | ||
| Single-issue networks | 189 | ||
| Multiple-issue networks | 189 | ||
| Appendix 1: The World Needs the Love of a Free Woman Nan Peacocke, November 1985 | 191 | ||
| Appendix 2: The Global Women’s Strike | 193 | ||
| Appendix 3: The Sisterhood is Global Institute | 195 | ||
| Index | 197 | ||
| Participating organizations | 205 | ||
| The Global Issues series | 208 |