Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization (Comparative Feminist Studies Series)
Waller, Marguerite, Marcos, Sylvia
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Description for Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization (Comparative Feminist Studies Series)
Paperback. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
Calling for inclusion and dialogue, these essays by an international group of feminist scholars and activists stress the need to put into relation seemingly discrepant approaches to reality and to scholarship in order to build coalitions across the usual North/South and East/West divides. This diverse group of authors, who spent fourteen weeks working collaboratively, dispense with unity and seek instead to use dialogue and difference in their production of knowledge about effective political action. The dialogues materialized here among women's movements that have emerged within different contexts and cosmologies take feminisms' challenges to contemporary corporate globalization in new empirical and ... Read more
Calling for inclusion and dialogue, these essays by an international group of feminist scholars and activists stress the need to put into relation seemingly discrepant approaches to reality and to scholarship in order to build coalitions across the usual North/South and East/West divides. This diverse group of authors, who spent fourteen weeks working collaboratively, dispense with unity and seek instead to use dialogue and difference in their production of knowledge about effective political action. The dialogues materialized here among women's movements that have emerged within different contexts and cosmologies take feminisms' challenges to contemporary corporate globalization in new empirical and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Comparative Feminist Studies
Number of Pages
259
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403967640
SKU
V9781403967640
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99-15
About Waller, Marguerite, Marcos, Sylvia
MARGUERITE WALLER is Professor of Women's Studies and Comparative Literature, University of California, USA. SYLVIA MARCOS is Visiting Professor, Drew University, and Director of the Center for Psychoethnological Research, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Reviews for Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization (Comparative Feminist Studies Series)
"Drawing on diverse disciplinary and interdisciplinary backgrounds as well as divergent geographic and cultural experiences, the authors demonstrate the power of dialogue across difference for the creation of new feminist knowledges on social justice and social change. They show how seemingly opposing views can provide the basis for new conceptual frameworks that challenge more limited forms of feminism as well ... Read more