Women's emancipation and civil society organisations challenging or maintaining the status quo?
Women are at the heart of civil society organisations (CSOs) that challenge oppressive practices at a local and global level and develop outstanding entrepreneurial activities. Yet CSO research tends to ignore considerations of gender, and the rich history of activist feminist organisations is rarel...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois :
Policy Press
2017
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430285406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Images, figures, maps and tables
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introducing the anthology
- 'Empowerment' as women's emancipation? A global analysis of the empowerment paradigm and the influence of feminism in women's NGOs
- Organising for emancipation
- Se Non Ora Quando? ('If not now, when?') The birth, growth and challenges of a new voice within the feminist scenario in Italy
- Street harassment activism in the twenty-first century
- New gender-political impulses from Eastern Europe: the case of Pussy Riot
- How a feminist activist group builds its repertoire of actions: a case study
- From feminist extravagance to citizen demand: the movement for abortion legalisation in Uruguay
- Sustainability from the bottom up: women as change agents in the Niger Delta
- Emancipating organisation(s)
- A women's NGO as an incubator: promoting identity-based associations in Nepalese civil society
- Gender democracy and women's self-empowerment: a case of Somali diaspora civil society
- The role of civil society organisations in emancipating Portuguese Roma women
- Breaking down dichotomies in the narratives of women's activism in Morocco
- Working within associations: recognition in the public space for women?
- Flexible working practices in charities: supporting or hindering women's emancipation in the workplace
- Examining and contextualising Kenya's Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organisation (MYWO) through an African feminist lens
- Organising for emancipation/emancipating organisations?
- Index
