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LOOKING
BACK, LOOKING FORWARD II:
More
perspectives on building global women's movements
More perspectives on the state of global women's
movements at both the national and global level is again
the theme of this Booklink - follow-up to our issue #44
on the same theme.
The books below offer varied perspectives on building the
women's movement as well as innovative approaches to
capturing our herstory as agents of change at all levels.
Among related events, activities and institutional news, we
have featured institutions that are and will play an
important role in preserving our history and/or
chronicling and honoring the lives of women around the world. The richness of the resource base women are
creating to make visible our lives, our issues, our
aspirations and accomplishments is impressive.
For anyone who
will be in New York to participate in the Beijing + 10
review during the 49th session of the UN
Commission on the Status of Women, we invite you to join
us for "bagels and books‚" -three early
morning conversations with the authors, editors, and the
people behind new books on the women’s
movement; human rights and peace building; and media and
the new information and communication technologies. They
will be held on March 1st, 4th, and
7th from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. at the IWTC
office. Bagels, tea, and coffee will be served.
Also during
the CSW 2005, women, Ink is putting up a sale of an
exciting collection of books on a broad range of issues -
from February 28th to March 11th 2005. Make sure to see us and
grab your copies during those two weeks!
For further
information on these and other new resources, or to order
any of these publications, check out our website at
http://www.womenink.org.
The Global Women's Movement
Peggy Antrobus
Of all the great social movements of the
twentieth century, it is the 30-year spread and
consolidation of the women's movement in the North and
South that looks set to shape the course of social
progress over the next generation.
In this overview of the international women's movement,
well-known activist Peggy Antrobus looks at where
women are now in the struggle against gender
inequality, what common issues do they face around the
world, what challenges confront these movements and
what strategies are needed to meet them. Rooted in her
long experience of feminist activism to set women's
movements in their changing national and global
context, her analysis will be an invaluable aid to
reflection and action for the next generation of women
as they carry through the unfinished business of
women's emancipation.
2005. ISBN 1-84277-016-0. 224 pgs.
WE689. $17.50
The Women's
Movement in Uganda: History, Challenges, and
Prospects
A.M.Tripp and J.C.Kwesiga, eds.
From its modest beginning, the women's
movement in Uganda has made remarkable progress since
1986. Who were the pioneers of this movement? What
progress has been made to emancipate and empower the
women of Uganda? What challenges have been encountered
in the struggle for gender equality? What
opportunities can be exploited to ensure that the
gains of the past two decades are consolidated and
sustained? Given the past experience, what are the
prospects of the women's movement in Uganda in the
21st century? The Women's Movement in Uganda is a
collection of essays by gender experts addressing
those questions. The topics covered range from women's
activism in colonial Uganda to women's contribution to
the economy, religion, the media and literature. The
book also contains a comprehensive bibliographical
guide on Ugandan Women. Bibliography, Index,
Biographical sketches of women leaders, photos, list
of acronyms, resumes of contributors.
2002. ISBN
9970-02-340-3. 238 pgs. WE691. $25.00
Women
Organizing for Change
Janet May-Chin
In a revealing
set of oral testimonies, this book unearths the
invisible stories of women who affected change and
broke gender barriers in different sectors of society
outside the organized Malaysian women's movement. The author operates from a standpoint that
mainstream and alternative Malaysian histories fail to
capture reality because they are male-oriented.
Thus, the goals of this collection are to document women's
stories so that gender can be included as an important
component in the analysis of Malaysian history and to
rediscover women's collective memory and identity. In particular, this collection reveals how women
have been organizing for change at different levels
and forging space/places for themselves, often in
circumstances not of their own choosing and within the
constraints of unequal power relations. Moreover, it
reflects the women's understanding that oppression
occurs because of a complex of reasons (including age,
gender, disability, health status, race, ethnicity,
language, culture, religion, class, caste, national
origin and sexual orientation) and that it is not
possible to eradicate one form of oppression, while
others remain in place. Thus, in the stories included
in this book, we see women support each other,
negotiate for their needs, resist the status
quo, intervene
and act during crisis situations for women and others,
organize and lobby for policy changes etc.
Ultimately,
the book tries to address the relationship between
social inequality and sense of place by exploring
these questions: Whose sense of place is more powerful
in terms of women's social relations? Whose sense of
place has to struggle to be expressed? Why are some
senses of place negative for specific groups of women?
2001. ISBN
983-40676-0-7. 131 pgs. WE699. $11.95
Resources of related
interest
Archives of the four global Women's NGO Forums
paralleling the UN world conferences on women
The records of
the various committees responsible for organizing the
four global non-governmental conferences that run
parallel to the UN World Conferences on Women - the
1975 International Women's Year Tribune, and the NGO
Women's Forums in Copenhagen (1980) Forum, Nairobi
(1985) and Beijing (1995) - are archived at Smith
College in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.
Initially, the International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC)
served as the repository for the organizing files of
the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations
(CONGO) Organizing Committee, the official host
organization for the NGO world women's conferences.
To ensure these records were preserved for historical purposes
and to increase access to these files by researchers,
IWTC accepted Smith College's invitation to provide
archival services for the collection including the
detailed cataloguing of all materials and creating
microfiche of perishable information (such as the
daily newspaper which was printed on newsprint).
The
organizational files include the basic administrative,
logistical and financial records of the various
planning committees, the registration lists for three
of the four Forums (the Nairobi registration lists
were lost) as well as the daily conference newspaper
for the four conferences. To these organizational files, IWTC added books,
reports, monographs, and periodicals relevant to these
four conferences to create a unique collection of
women organizing materials.
IWTC still
maintains visual archives of these events including
the audio tapes of the plenary speeches, posters, and
a slide library providing a visual record of events at
all four conferences.
Collectively, these records contribute to a growing knowledge
base of this thirty year history (1975-2005).
For
information on the archives at Smith College go to: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/home.html
Or write to: ssc-wmhist@smith.edu
For
information on the visual and audio archives, contact:
The
International Women's Tribune Center (IWTC), 777
United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017. Phone: 212
687 8633; Fax: 212 661 2704. URL: www.iwtc.org
Isis Journey and Collective Journeys
Isis Journey and the Collective
Journeys website are two innovative approaches to
documenting the herstory of women's information and
communication organizations developed by Isis
International-Manila. Isis Journey, a 20 minute
VCD, chronicles the organizational life of Isis
International, one of the world's first international
women's information and documentation centers from its
actual birth in Rome,
the formation of Isis Women's International Cross Cultural
Exchange in Geneva to the move of Isis International
to Santiago and Manila, to the founding of Isis-WICCE
Kampala. It
features letters, photos, and video clips from the
second wave of the women's movement in the early
1970s. Through the stories of women's groups and
individual women, Isis
Journey draws attention to the fact that communication,
both its tools and processes, is central to the
women's movement; and that it is a vital tool for
activism as it ensures that the issues get heard,
discussed and acted upon. Isis journey is as much of a
celebration as it is a documentation of women's
contributions in information and communication work to
the women's movement.
The
Collective Journeys website www.collectivejourneys.org, a follow-up to the Isis
Journey production,
houses the collective journeys or unique stories of
other women's information and communication
organizations. It is hoped that women's information
organizations, especially those from the South, can
gain more visibility through the Collective Journeys
website, and become a stronger voice in the struggle
for gender equality and social justice overall.
To order
Isis Journey (available in VCD) or for further information, contact
Isis International-Manila at isis@isiswomen.org.
Women in
Action Issue No. 2/2004 - Examining Feminist and Social
Movements
This issue of
Isis International - Manila's triannual magazine pulls
together the perspectives and reflections of feminist
activists on the changing nature of the
women’s movement. It focuses on the
re-examination of the feminist movement vis-a-vis its
renewed alliances with social justice movements in the
context of the growing conservatism, neo-liberal
globalization and fundamentalisms. Gender
mainstreaming, as a strategy to achieve gender
equality is also examined in this issue.
This issue of
Women in Action also features an online chat among six feminists from
India, Fiji, Italy, Malaysia and the Philippines on
shifts in the women's movement, its strategies and its
relationship to other social justice movements.
Overall, the collection of articles points to a desire
to engage in critical self-reflection as a global
feminist movement. Some of the contributors in this
issue include feminist activists such as Sunila
Abeysekera, Peggy Antrobus, Ewa Charkiewicz, Marilee
Karl, Patricia McFadden, and Suzette Mitchell.
During the
49th session of the UN CSW from 28 February
to 11 March 2005, Women in Action's issue on Examining
Feminist and Social Movements will be available at
Women, Ink. Alternatively, it may also be ordered from
Isis International-Manila at isis@isiswomen.org
AWID's
publication on feminist movements
The
Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
has extended the deadline for submissions on feminist
organizational strengthening and movement building to
April 30, 2005. Accepted in French, Spanish and
English, selected contributions will be published by
AWID and showcased at the 10th International AWID
Forum on Women's Rights in Development, October 27-30,
in Bangkok, Thailand. The AWID website also
features an online survey where visitors can submit
proposals on the topic and provide suggestions on what
activities and actions AWID could do as part of the
new Feminist Movements and Organizations programs.
The call for contributions is available at:
http://www.awid.org/femo/
The
International Museum of Women
Working out of
San Francisco, the International Museum of Women
(IMOW) is dedicated to chronicling and honoring the
lives of women across the world. Scheduled to open in
2008, IMOW will offer exhibits and programs that
inform visitors about women's issues and roles across
cultures and throughout time, provoking questions
about the status quo through an examination of
individual identity, cultural structures and social
order. In
anticipation of finding a permanent home, IMOW has
presented exhibits on the women's suffrage movement in
California, on world festivals that celebrate feminine
spirit and on the representations of women in global
art, to name a few. In Fall 2005, it will release a
coffee-table anthology, a virtual exhibit and a
multimedia education campaign on how women across the
world imagine themselves.
Find out more
at:
http://www.imow.org/home.html
The
International Information Centre and Archives for the
Women's Movement
The
International Information Centre and Archives for the
Women's Movement (IIAV) maintains 85,000 fiction and
non-fiction books covering all aspects of the position
of women in the past (the oldest book dates back to
1578) and present (current research, papers,
government reports and leaflets), periodicals and past
volumes of magazines (some dating back to the early
nineteenth century), newspaper clippings, including
the biographical clippings of 7,500 women and other
media that provide a sense of women's history.
The IIAV operates out of the Netherlands.
Find out more
at:
http://www.iiav.nl/eng/iiav/index.html
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