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Women and Political Process
In this book, we will study about women and the political process. It discusses women’s participation in governance, policymaking, and political movements.
The Power of Women's Organizing
The Power of Women's Organizing is a remarkable work that offers a glimpse into the women's movement outside the United States. Author Mangala Subramaniam addresses the mobilizing and organizing of the Indian women's movement in the larger context of globalization and the national social fabric. She draws attention to the emergence of multiple interests based on class, caste, religion, and geographic differences. Uniquely featuring the integration of rural women's experiences and a case study of the dalit women's challenges, this expert work examines the women's movement in India since the 1970s, its growth, and the tensions resulting from the representation of varied interests. Women's experiences outside of the West are a fruitful new source of understanding the women's movement and will be of interest to scholars of women's studies and sociology.
Women and Collective Action in Africa
This book examines women's movements and women's collective action in Africa. Steady begins her examination in pre-colonial times, moving through the colonial period to the present. She looks at the various arenas which collective action has and can influence, comparing the impact on economic growth, education, democratizations, family formation, and women's rights. Steady uses Sierra Leone as the focus of her inquiry, in order for a detailed story to illustrate larger themes, but in every area makes comparisons to different parts of Africa; the case study here guides a larger inquiry. Written as a text, the book carefully explains the theoretical ideas (e.g., all key terms are defined, and then there is a discussion of how they relate to African issues specifically) and the historical knowledge (e.g., all historical events are described, there is no assumption of knowledge of African history) necessary to understand the meaning of current women's groups. What results is a clear and comprehensive treatment of an issue which is increasingly central to understanding changes taking place on the African continent today.
Her Place, Her Power
Her Place, Her Power: Growing Together for Women’s Rights and Agency in Rural Communities—emerged from the reflective collaboration between Titiek Kartika Hendrastiti and Pramasti Ayu Kusdinar (Akar Global Initiative – AGI). The book chronicles a long journey of strengthening grassroots women’s leadership capacities—from Bengkulu to national gatherings involving women from Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Java. Amid social-ecological crises and the marginalization of rural women, this book affirms that grassroots leadership is not merely about survival—it offers collective pathways forward. Through a feminist-decolonial lens, real stories reveal how women build well-being through solidarity, local knowledge, and collaborative action. More than a documentation of activities, Her Place, Her Power serves as a living archive that amplifies the everyday experiences of women in villages, gardens, and forests—voices often overlooked in mainstream narratives. Facilitators’ notes, participants’ testimonies, and critical reflections make this book both an inspiration and a source of learning.
Grassroot Empowerment (1975-1990)
Study with special reference to poor women in rural and urban India and their empowerment.
Political Worlds of Women
Political Worlds of Women provides a comprehensive overview of women's political activism, comparing formal and informal channels of power from official institutions of state to grassroots mobilizations and Internet campaigns. Illuminating the politics of identity enmeshed in local, national, and global gender orders, this book explores women's creation of new political spaces and innovative political strategies to secure full citizenship and equal access to political power. Incorporating case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Mary Hawkesworth analyzes critical issues such as immigration and citizenship, the politics of representation, sexual regulation, and gender mainstreaming in order to examine how women mobilize in this era of globalization. Political Worlds of Women deepens understandings of national and global citizenship and presents the formidable challenges facing racial and gender justice in the contemporary world. It is an essential resource for students and scholars of women's studies and gender politics.
Women in Grassroots Communication
The volume is celebratory in two senses: first, it brings together the experience of many committed media activists whose work is little known; second, at a time when much of the liberation potential of cultural studies is wrapped up in reception studies, it issues a challenge to complacent theorists to turn the computer off and go out and do some active political work in their field. --Intermedia "Pilar Riaño′s analysis of communication, development, and feminist literature via women as producers of communication is clear, and I think, accurate. I am impressed with the breadth of her knowledge of these fields and her clear thinking and careful organization of the material. . . . I would ...
The Gender Order of Neoliberalism
What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, and cultural realities of neoliberalism’s global gender order. In this ambitious book, Radhakrishnan and Solari map the varied gendered pathways of a global hegemonic regime. Focusing on the US, the former Soviet Union, and South and Southeast Asia, they argue that the interconnected histories of imperialism, socialism, and postcolonialism have converged in a new way since the fall of the Soviet Union, transforming the post-war international order that preceded it. Today, the ideal of the empowered woman – a striving, entrepr...
