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Introduction and overview: globalization, social movements, and contemporary politics -- Globalization, its discontents, and collective action -- Globalization and social movements: whither democracy? -- Islamist movements -- Feminism on a world scale -- The global justice movement -- Populisms in the world-system -- Conclusions and prognostication.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- PART ONE Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Perspectives -- 1 Introduction: Women and Identity Politics in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective -- 2 The Creation of the World We Know: The World-Economy and the Re-creation of Gendered Identities -- 3 The Ideal Woman and the Ideal Society: Control and Autonomy in the Construction of Identity -- 4 Gender as an Ethno-Marker: Rape, War, and Identity Politics in the Former Yugoslavia -- 5 Women of the West Imagined: The Farangi Other and the Emergence of the Woman Question in Iran -- PART TWO Country Case Studies -- 6 Politics, Islam, and Women in Kano, Northern Nigeria -- 7 Gender, Religious Identity, and Political Mobilization in Sudan -- 8 Feminism and Muslim Fundamentalism: The Tunisian and Algerian Cases -- 9 The Social Representation of Women in Algeria's Islamist Movement -- 10 Gender Activism: Feminists and Islamists in Egypt -- 11 Identity Politics and Women: "Fundamentalism" and Women in Pakistan -- 12 Moving Away from a Secular Vision? Women, Nation, and the Cultural Construction of Hindu India -- 13 Identity Politics and the Contemporary Indian Feminist Movement -- 14 Women and Fundamentalism: The Case of Turkey -- 15 Halakha, Zionism, and Gender: The Case of Gush Emunim -- 16 The Role, Place, and Power of Middle-Class Women in the Islamic Republic -- 17 Paradoxical Politics: Gender Politics Among Newly Orthodox Jewish Women in the United States -- 18 Women of the New Right in the United States: Family, Feminism, and Politics -- PART THREE Dilemmas and Strategies -- 19 The Preferential Symbol for Islamic Identity: Women in Muslim Personal Laws -- 20 Identity Politics and Women's Ethnicity.

This clear and concise book examines the crucial relationship between globalization and social movements. Deftly combining nuanced theory with rich empirical examples, leading scholar Valentine M. Moghadam focuses especially on three transnational social movements-Islamism, feminism, and global justice. Defining globalization as a complex process in which the mobility of capital, peoples, organizations, movements, and ideas takes on an increasingly transnational form, the author shows how both physical and electronic mobility has helped to create dynamic global social movements. Globalization has engendered the spread of neoliberal capitalism across the world, but it also has engendered opposition and collective action.

Globalizing women : an introduction and overview -- Globalization and its discontents : capitalist development, political movements, and gender -- Female labor, global inequalities, and feminist responses -- The women's movement and its organizations : discourses, structures, resources -- From structural adjustment to the global trade agenda : DAWN, WIDE, WEDO -- Feminists vs. fundamentalists : WLUML and SIGI -- The travails of transnational feminist organizing : AWMR -- The spectre that haunts the global economy? : the challenge of global feminism