books

Global Feminism: Transnational Women's Activisim,
Organizing, and Human Rights

edited by Myra Marx Ferree and Aili Tripp

New York University Press, 2006.

Contributors include:

Melinda Adams
Aida Bagic Yakin Ertürk
Myra Marx Ferree
Amy Mazur & Dorothy McBride
Hilkka Pietilä
Tetyana Pudrovska
Margaret (Peg) Snyder
Sarah Swider
Aili Mari Tripp
Nira Yuval-Davis


Since the U.N.’s World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975, feminists around the world have campaigned with increasing success for recognition of women’s full-personhood and empowerment. Global Feminism explores the social and political developments that have brought about the growth of transnational feminism. Drawn from an international group of scholars and activists, the authors of these original essays assess both the opportunities that transnationalism has created and the tensions it has inadvertently fostered.  By focusing on both the local and global struggles of today’s feminist activists this important volume reveals much about women’s changing rights, treatment and impact in the global world.