Activisms
by Hodgson, Dorothy L.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-12-01
Publisher(s): Feminist Pr
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Focusing on the global south, international contributors explore women's activism around social and political issues.
Table of Contents
| Editors' Note | p. 10 |
| Introduction: Activisms | p. 14 |
| Lives | |
| My Grandmother (poem) | p. 26 |
| For Love and Justice: Ovadia's StoryJanet L. Finn | p. 30 |
| Resisting Fear with the Politics of Indignant Possibility: An Interview with Sandra Moran of Guatemala's Women's Sector | p. 38 |
| Field Note: Not to Be Tabled-Stop Forced "Mental Health" Treatment | p. 49 |
| Challenging HIV/AIDS in South Africa Through Art (photo essay) | p. 53 |
| "An Activist Temperament": An Interview with Charlotte Bunch | p. 60 |
| Sweet Beloved (poem) | p. 75 |
| What Counts as Activism?: The Role of Individuals in Creating Change | p. 78 |
| Antiheroine in the Time Tunnel: A Documentary | p. 95 |
| Locations | |
| Dignity Overdue: Women's Rights Activism in Support of Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore | p. 106 |
| Field Note: In Your Face-Indonesian Domestic Workers' Activism at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Hong Kong | p. 123 |
| Feminist Activism and Class Politics: The Example of the Lagos Girl Hawker Project | p. 128 |
| Brainstormers and Gender Inequity in the Art World (photo essay) | p. 144 |
| When Wisdom Speaks Sparks Fly: Raging Grannies Perform Humor as Protest | p. 150 |
| From Armenia (poem) | p. 165 |
| Local Capacity Building in "Dysfunctional" Times: Internationals, Revolutionaries, and Activism in Postwar El Salvador | p. 167 |
| Links | |
| Toi Derricotte's Language as Action: The Construction of Individual and Collective Identity | p. 184 |
| A Planet of Women (poem) | p. 199 |
| The Ladies of Sheung Wan (fiction) | p. 202 |
| Seeing Orange: Women's Activism and Ukraine's Orange Revolution | p. 208 |
| Field Note: "And We Were Mexicanas": Notes on the Use of National Symbols by Lesbian Groups in Mexico | p. 226 |
| The Power of Pottery: Hopi Women Shaping the World | p. 230 |
| No/war! (poem) | p. 248 |
| A Grab Won't Cure My Feminism | p. 252 |
| Pedagogies & Methodologies | |
| Activism and Pedagogies: Feminist Reflections | p. 255 |
| WAKEUP/Arts and Interrupting the Curriculum (photo essay) | p. 276 |
| Classics Revisited: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft: Challenges of Race and Class in Feminist Discourse | p. 280 |
| Juxtaposing Lives: Mary Wollstonecraft and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz | p. 287 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft in Serbia | p. 292 |
| Crossing Borders and Bridging Generations: Wollstonecraft's Rights of Woman as the Traveling Feminist Classic | p. 296 |
| Reviews | |
| A Review/Interview-Margie Orford's Like Clockwork, Cape Town, South Africa | p. 302 |
| Contradictory States: Caste, Violence, and Rural Women's Organizing in India-Mangala Suramaniam's The Power of Women's Organizing: Gender, Caste, and Class in India and Kanchan Mathur's Countering Gender Violence: Initiatives Towards Collective Action in Rajasthan | p. 307 |
| A Film Review-Kum-Kum Bhavnani's The Shape of Water | p. 312 |
| Reflections on Activism in Africa-Gender Activism and Studies in Africa, edited by Signe Arnfred, Amanda Gouws, and Barbere Kerata ChaCha; and Activist Voices: Feminist Struggles for an Alternative World, edited by Marjorie Mbilinyi, Mary Rusimbi, Chachage S.L. Chachage, and Demere Kitunga | p. 314 |
| Performative Practices and Poetry in North America and Pakistan-Fawzia Afzal-Khan's A Critical Stage: The Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan; Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women, edited by Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder; and Solid Ground: A Poetry Anthology by Writers Corps, edited by Judith Tannenbaum | p. 317 |
| Queer Activisms-Cynthia Rothchild's Written Out: How Sexuality Is Used to Attack Women's Organizing; Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian/Pacific American Activists, edited by Kevin Kumashiro; and Catriona Rueda Esquibel's With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians | p. 322 |
| Activist Lives-Wangari Maathai's Unbowed: A Memoir; Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni's Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope; and Gioconda Belli's The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War | p. 327 |
| The Perils and Possibilites of Transnational Feminism-Global Feminism: Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights, edited by Myra Marx Ferree and Aili Mari Tripp; Feminist Politics, Activism, and Vision: Local and Global Challenges, edited by Luciana Ricciutelli, Angela Miles, and Margaret McFadden; and Defending Our Dreams: Global Feminist Voices for a New Generation, edited by Shamillah Wilson, Anasuya Sengupta, and Kristy Evans | p. 333 |
| Alerts & Provocations | |
| Reproductive Rights and the Supreme Court: When Activism Goes Wrong | p. 338 |
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