Making transnational feminism : rural women, NGO activists, and northern donors in Brazil /

"Making Transnational Feminism takes the "ant's eye view" of global social movement relationships from the ground. Using ethnography, Thayer takes us inside transnational feminist alliances, viewing them from the local perspective of two women's movements in Northeast Brazil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thayer, Millie.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2010.
Series:Perspectives on gender (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1
  • Introduction: Re-Reading Globalization from Northeast Brazil
  • 1
  • 2
  • Uneasy Allies: The Making of a Transnational Feminist Counterpublic
  • 35
  • 3
  • Translating Feminisms: From Embodied Women to Gendered Citizenship
  • 53
  • 4
  • Negotiating Class and Gender: Devalued Women in a Local Counterpublic
  • 83
  • 5
  • The Leverage of the Local: "Authentic" Rural Women in Global Counterpublics
  • 110
  • 6
  • Feminists and Funding: Plays of Power in the Social Movement Market
  • 128
  • 7
  • Movement or Market? Defending the Endangered Counterpublic
  • 164
  • Methodological Appendix: Transnational Feminism as Field
  • 170.