Feminist Politics, Activism and Vision: Local and Global Challenges Edited by Luciana Ricciutelli, Angela Miles and Margaret H. McFadden ISBN 0-9681290-8-0 / 2004 / 392 pp. /$34.95 List ORDER | OVERVIEW | CONTENTS | AUTHOR BIO | REVIEW | REVIEW2 | REVIEW3

Acknowledgements 7

Preface
Peggy Antrobus 9

Introduction
Angela Miles 13

I. Neo-Liberal Context

Women: The Custodians
Vandana Shiva 25

Love and Gold
Arlie Russell Hochschild 34

II. Feminist Organizing: National, Regional and Global Frames

Global Politics and Transnational Feminisms
Jan Jindy Pettman 49

Feminist Networks, People’s Movements and Alliances:
Learning from the Ground
Devaki Jain 64

Feminism, Peace, Human Rights and Human Security
Charlotte Bunch 76

Up Against the State: The Women’s Movement in Pakistan and its Implications for the Global Women’s Movement
Nighat Said Khan 86

Creating and Sustaining Feminist Space in Africa:
Local and Global Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi 100

Advocating Feminism: The Latin American Feminist NGO ‘Boom’
Sonia E. Alvarez 122

Organizing for Domestic Worker Rights in Singapore:
The Limits of Transnationalism
Lenore Lyons 149

III. Women’s Local Struggles and Feminist Politics

The Curse of Nakedness: Nigerian Women in the Oil War
Terisa E. Turner and Leigh S. Brownhill 169

‘We Are That Mythical Thing Called the Public’:
MilitantHousewives in the US During the Depression
Annelise Orleck 192

Solidarity, Patriarchy and Empowerment:
Women’s Struggles Against Arrack in India
Rekha Pande 212

Coming to Terms With the Past in Bangladesh:
Naming Women’s Truths
Bina D’Costa 227

Missionary Women and Feminism in Norway, 1906-1910
Line Nyhagen Predelli 248

IV. Feminist Challenges in Practice and Vision

The Indigenous Roots of United States Feminism
Sally Roesch Wagner 267

Women’s Human Rights Activists as Political Theorists
Brooke A. Ackerly 285

Alternative Leadership in Africa:
Some Critical Feminist Reflections
Sylvia Tamale 313

Testing the Limits of European Citizenship:
Ethnic Hatred and Male Violence
R. Amy Elman 329

Feminist Intervention in the Rise of ‘Asian’ Discourse
Cho Haejoang 348

Back to Womanhood: Feminism in Globalized Israel
Erella Shadmi 364

V. Conclusion

The Empire Strikes Back But Finds Feminism Invincible
Alda Facio 373

Index 386