June 2005
Peg Snyder
New Titles in the Women, Ink. Collection
- Women, Gender and Development in the Caribbean: Reflections and Projections
- Common Ground or Mutual Exclusion? Women's Movements and International Relations
- Feminist Politics, Activism & Vision: Local and Global Challenges
For further information on the new books, please visit our website at www.womenink.org. To order any of these publications, please refer to the ordering information below.
Women, Gender and Development in the Caribbean: Reflections and Projections
by Patricia EllisThe Caribbean has undergone profound changes over the past generation, not least in the position of women. The new book by Pat Ellis looks back over what has been achieved in the past 20 years, and forward to the issues and challenges still facing Caribbean men and women as their mutual relations continue to evolve in the context of changing development policies, the increasing incidence of poverty, and a population deeply affected by migration and ageing. The book locates the situation and perspectives of women within the larger framework of the social, cultural, economic and political realities of the contemporary Caribbean, and combines statements of ordinary men and women with statistics and socio-economic and political analysis. It is an "unusual, fascinating and invaluable book for those interested in the intersection of gender and development, and in the evolution of the contemporary Caribbean women's movement‚" says Peggy Antrobus, the Caribbean's leading feminist scholar.The book includes tables and figures, list of abbreviations, bibliography, and index.
2003. ISBN 1 85649 933 2. 181 pages. WE712. $ 27.50
Common Ground or Mutual Exclusion? Women's Movements and International Relations
edited by Marianne Braig and Sonja Wolte
At the beginning of the 21st century, women and women's movements are no longer visible in international relations. This book opens a range of questions about the prospects for international women's movements to influence the international political agenda. Its contributors come from North and South, and include feminist academics and activists as well as mainstream scholars of international relations, who explore the concrete impacts women have made in areas like development theory and practice, conflict management and the conceptualization and politics of human rights. They also reflect on how far the traditionally male-defined discipline of international relations has taken on board feminist thinking and recognizes women as actors in international politics. Among the controversial issues it addresses are: the intellectual relationship between feminism and mainstream scholarship; whether the radical potential of social movements and feminist critiques is being lost; how far feminist scholarship is removed from women's movements and politics; and differences in perspectives between women of the South and the North.The book also features contributor profiles, selected further readings, and index.
2002. ISBN 1 84277 159 0. 226 pages. WE 718. US$ 25.00
Feminist Politics, Activism & Vision: Local and Global Challenges
edited by Luciana Ricciutelli, Angela Miles, and Margaret H. McFaddenThis volume brings together essays of remarkable variety and fresh insights, from 24 leading feminists in Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America, Europe and Scandinavia. The personal accounts, speeches and academic articles collected here reveal a vibrant and multifaceted transnational feminist community in struggle, redefining wealth, work, peace, democracy, family, human rights, development, community and citizenship. In her preface, Caribbean feminist leader Peggy Antrobus describes the book as recounting the stories of local struggles that provide the kind of inspiration needed at a time when so many of our gains are jeopardized by the spread of neo-liberal globalization and religious fundamentalisms; solidarity among women is challenged by racism; and our lives are endangered by militarism. At this time, when local concerns from livelihoods to water, from health care to citizenship, are so strongly influenced by global trends, one of the greatest challenges to women’s movements is clarifying the links between the local and the global. The book shows that much feminist organizing today is grounded in awareness of these local/global links.2004. ISBN 1 84277 351 8. 392 pages. WE 720. US$ 27.50
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