Facets of Emancipation: Women in Movement from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Offers a general overview of the emergence of women's active participation in grassroots resistance movements in response to the pressures of globalization over the past three decades, both within other major social & political movements & in exclusively female efforts. Focus is on movements directed toward livelihood needs & those aimed at obtaining rights & democracy, particularly among poor women. Originally documented in Latin America & other parts of the South in response to global economic policies & politics, such movements spread to the North to include people of color & low-income, working-class women. The relationship of these movements to feminism & to other forms of collective action is discussed, along with debates over their characterization as protest movements. 15 References. K. Hyatt Stewart