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Transitions Environments Translations Feminisms in International Politics

Edited By Joan W. Scott, Cora Kaplan, Debra Keates Copyright 1997
    422 Pages
    by Routledge

    422 Pages
    by Routledge

    556 Pages
    by Routledge
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    The essays in Transitions, Environments, Translations explore the varied meanings of feminism in different political, cultural, and historical contexts. They respond to the claim that feminism is Western in origin and universalist in theory, and to the assumption that feminist goals are self-evident and the same in all contexts.

    Rather than assume that there is a blueprint by which to measure the strength or success of feminism in different parts of the world, these essays consider feminism to be a site of local, national and international conflict. They ask: What is at stake in various political efforts by women in different parts of the world? What meanings have women given to their efforts? What has been their relationship to feminism--as a concept and as an international movement? What happens when feminist ideas are translated from one language, one political context, to another?

    PART I: WOMEN AND THE STATE After State Socialism 1.Lin Chun -- Finding a Language: Feminism and Women's Movements in Contemporary China 2. Peggy Watson -- Civil Society and the Politics of Difference in Eastern Europe 3. Susan Gal -- Feminism and Civil Society 4. Myra Marx Ferree-- German Unification and Feminist Identity 5. Hana Havelkov6~ -- Transitory and Persistent Differences: Feminism East and West 6. Djurdja Knezevic -- Affective Nationalism 7. Svetlana Slapsak -- Nationalist and Women's Discourse in Post-Yugoslavia 8. Renate Salecl -- The Postsocialist Moral Majority; Women's Movements in Eastern and Central Europe 9. Sabine Lang -- The NGOization of Feminism 10.Eva Maleck-Lewy -- The East German Women's Movement after Unification 11. Malgorzata Fuszara -- Women's Movements in Poland 12. Milica Antic' Gaber -- Politics in Transition 13. Andrea Pet4~2~ -- Hungarian Women in Politics 14. Krassimira Daskalova -- The Women's Movement in Bulgaria after Communism 15. Ann Snitow -- Response PART II: ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENTS The Politics of Development 16. Bina Agarwal -- Gender Perspectives on Environmental Action: Issues of Equity, Agency, and Participation 17. Tsehai Berhane-Selasie -- The Politics of Womanhood in Occupational Inequality The Politics of Enviromentalism 18. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- Transitions as Translations 19. Yaakov Garb -- Lost in Translation: Toward a Feminist Account of Chipko 20. Nol Sturgeon -- Strategic Environmentalisms PART III: RACE AND DIFFERENCE 21. Evelynn M. Hammonds -- When the Margin is the Center: African-American Feminism(s) and Difference 22. Jacklyn Cock -- Women in South Africa's Transition to Democracy 23. Mamphela Ramphele -- Whither Feminism PART IV: WOMEN'S STUDIES/GENDER STUDIES 24. Zakia Pathak -- Defamiliarizing Practices: The Scene of Feminist Pedagogy 25. Rosi Braidotti -- Uneasy Transitions: Women's Studies in the European Union 26. Anastasia Posadsakya-Vanderbeck -- On the Threshold of the Classroom: Dilemmas for Post-Soviet Russian Feminism 27. Svetlana V. Kupryashkina -- The Limits of Research: Women's Studies in Ukraine 28. Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Feminisms in an Islamic Republic 29. Alice Kessler-Harris -- Comparative Perspectives

    Biography

    Joan W. Scott is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and co-editor of Feminists Theorize the Political (Routledge 1992). Cora Kaplan is Professor of English at Southampton University and author of Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism (1986). Debra Keates is a contributor to The Dictionary of Feminism and Psychoanalysis.

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