Women in a globalizing world : transforming equality, development, diversity and peace

Miles, Angela R. (Angela Rose) (Added Author).

Summary: An exciting interdisciplinary Canadian collection of ground-breaking work brings together almost seventy articles by formative feminist writers, researchers, activists and visionaries to illuminate the profound globalizing processes of our time. Critical analyses of current globalization and possible alternatives are presented in the context of global feminist dialogue and activism since the 1980s. Together, the articles provide a comprehensive overview of the agenda and processes of neo-liberal globalization; women?s activist responses to the consequent environmental and social destruction; and visionary feminist alternatives and worldviews. As well as women?s studies courses, this collection will be an indispensable resource for teachers seeking globally-informed, gender-, race-, class-, and Indigenous- aware Canadian resources for the study of sociology, international development, environmental studies, political economy, women?s human rights, labour studies, social policy, social work, international relations, migration/immigration, violence, poverty, militarism, colonialism and post-colonialism, social movements, global feminisms, peace, community organizing, sustainability and alternative possibilities.

Record details

ISBN: 9781926708195
ISBN: 1926708199
Physical Description: print
xiii, 602 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Inanna Publications and Education, c2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:june.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Women's action agenda 21 preamble economic globalization, ecological feminism, and earth democracy -- An open letter: Native culture and the environment -- Re-enhancing the world: Technology and the construction of the commons -- Confronting globalization: Feminist spirituality as political strategy -- Do we need a new "moral enemy"? -- Feminists for a gift economy: Position statement for a peaceful world -- Resistance is possible -- Thinking globally: Women, work and caring -- The global crisis -- Globalization: Some implications and strategies for women -- Freedom for whom? Globalization and trade from the standpoint -- Why privatization is a women's issue -- The politics of pay equity in BC's health care system: The role of government, multinational corporations and unions -- Welfare policy: A critical site of struggle for women's safety -- Women's occupational health in social services: Stress, violence, and workload -- Advocacy, activism and social change for women in prison -- The politics of sustainable development: From Rio 1992 to rio+20 in 2012 - A subsistence view -- Some notes on liberalism, on land, and on the food question -- Women and/as commodities: A brief meditation -- The invisibility of women's work: The economics of local and global "bullshit" -- The seed and the earth: The colonization of regeneration -- GMOs: Globalizing male omnipotence -- A struggle for clean water and livelihood: Canadian mining in Costa Rica in the era of globalization -- Changing climate, uncertain future: considering rural women in climate policies and strategies -- Our violent economy is hurting women -- The "other" side of globalization: The legal regulation of cross-border movements -- Women as migrants: Members in national and global communities -- Migrant workers amidst globalization -- Gender transformative odysseys: Tracing the experiences of migrant women in rural Canada -- Globalization and the sex trade: Trafficking and commodification of women and children -- Linking violence and poverty in Canadian restructuring: The CASAC report -- The global capitalist economic agenda: Impact on women's human rights -- Resistance is necessary -- Development crisis and alternative visions: Third world women's perspectives -- The world's women unite in diversity: Report on Nairobi -- Peace is the way to peace: Peace tent at Nairobi -- Women and health: A summary report from the UN end of decade for women conference -- Women's action agenda 21: New approaches to sustainable development -- International indigenous women's caucus statement -- Statement from the women of the south caucus -- North American regional caucus report -- Beijing '95: Global referendum on human rights of women -- Pages from Beijing: A woman's creed and the NGO declaration -- Ensuring indigenous women's voices are heard: The Beijing declaration of indigenous women -- Women's sexual autonomy: Universality, sexual rights, and sexual orientation at the Beijing conference -- Putting agriculture on the agenda: Representing farm women in Beijing -- Feminism, peace, human rights and human security -- Creating trialogue: Women's constitutional activism in Canada -- Gender-based analysis and indigenous worldviews -- Life, interrupted: Reproductive damage from chemical pollutants - Alarm growing since Rio -- Black women and HIV/AIDS, contextualizing their realities, their silence and proposing solutions -- Why women still aren't satisfied: Politics and activism in Canadian child care -- Virtual activism and the pro-choice movement in Canada -- Idle no more: Strong hearts of indigenous women's leadership -- Racism, ethnicity and peace -- Feminist statement on guaranteed living income -- Social diversity, globalization and sustainability in community-based economics -- Alternatives to globalization: Women small-scale farmers and local food systems -- LGBTQ Activism: Small town social change -- Is Canada peaceful and safe for Aboriginal women? -- Women farm leaders speak out about resistance and agrarian activism -- Women, energy and sustainability: Making links, taking action -- Why we need women's actions and feminist voices for peace -- Tear gas in utero: Quebec city -- Feminism and occupy -- Occupy women: Will feminism's fourth wave be a swell or a ripple?