Women's Activism and Globalization

I. Introduction 1. Changing the Terms: Community Activism, Globalization, and the Dilemmas of Transnational Feminist Praxis, Nancy A. Naples 2. Transnational Solidarity: Women's Agency, Structural Adjustment, and Globalization, Manisha Desai 3. Women's Local and Translocal Responses: An Introduction to the Chapters, Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai II. Organizing Across Borders 4. Women to Women: Dissident Citizen Diplomacy in Nicaragua, Clare Weber 5. From Mothers' Rights to Equal Rights: Post-Soviet Grassroots Women's Associations, Alexandra Hrycak 6. Las Mujeres Invisibles/The Invisible Women, Sharon Ann Navarro 7. Contesting Multiple Margins: Asian Indian Community Activism in the Early and Late 20th Century, Bandana Purkayashta III. Localizing Global Politics 8. Creating Alternatives from a Gender Perspective: Transnational Organizing for Maquila Workers' Rights in Central America, Jennifer Bickham Mendez 9. Context, Strategy, Ground: Rural Women Organizing to Confront Local/Global Economic Issues, Betty Wells 10. Linking Local Efforts with Global Struggle: Trinidad's National Union of Domestic Employees, Marina Karides 11. Women Activists in Mali: The Global Discourse on Human Rights, Susanna D. Wing IV. Activism In and Against the Transnational State 12. The Limits of Micro-Credit: Transnational Feminism and USAID Activities in the United States and Morocco, Winifred Poster and Zakia Salime 13. No Discrimination Whatsoever: Women's Transnational Activism and the Evolution of EU Sex Equality Policy, Rachel A. Cichowski Redefining Security: Okinawa Women's Resistance to U.S. Militarism, Yoko Fukumura and Martha Matsuoka V. Conclusion 15. Transnational Feminist Praxis: The Politics of Location, Nancy A. Naples