Women's Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics
Language: English
Pages: 357
ISBN: 2:00302115
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A broad and comprehensive collection that shows how women activists across the globe are responding to the forces of the 'new world order' in their communities. The first-person accounts and regional case studies provide a truly global view of women working in their communities for change. The essays examine women in urban, rural, and suburban locations around the world to provide a rich understanding of the common themes as well as significant divergences among women activists in different parts of the world.
their husbands influenced their vote in elections. The overwhelming majority of participants stated that they voted for the candidate of their choice, not necessarily one their husbands preferred. One woman acknowledged pressure from her husband and was encouraged by other women to insist on her right to vote as she wished. If that was not possible, they suggested, she could simply remain nonconfrontational and vote behind the curtain for whomever she wanted to support. Her choice would always be
more than 90 percent of health expenditure. By contrast, in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, governments contribute only about 52 to 57 percent of the total health budget. One of the consequences of privatization of health care in Third World countries has been a cut in public health services, particularly primary care, and the increased use of nongovernmental and private voluntary organizations to deliver services (Turshen 1994). In Africa, NGOs provide between 25 and 94 percent of health services.
small percentage has further eroded since the 1970s and reached a low of 2.6 percent in 1994–1995, at the peak of the liberalization effort. The public health expenditure’s share in the national income since SAPs is less than 1 percent. Most of the health budget comes from the state and not the national government. At the individual level, the CEHAT studies found that given the paucity of public health availability, 80 percent of health care costs come out of people’s own pockets. TRANSNATIONAL
the everyday lives of women in different parts of the world, except to highlight the increased participation of women in the labor force and the feminization of poverty among other dimensions of women’s economic oppression. The case studies presented in this book demonstrate the diverse ways women respond to these powerful forces as well as how their activism can pose challenges to the “scattered hegemonies” (Grewal and Kaplan 1994) associated with the global expansion of capitalism. While
administer areas of education and culture (Dawson 1996). Nationalist women’s activism of this type was concentrated in the western Ukraine, the Baltics, and the Caucasus, where national sentiment was rising. This wave of community activism had complicated effects on women’s capacity to use glasnost freedoms to gain greater control over indigenous organizations, successfully develop a collective action frame, and build coalitions among groups with ideological differences. For the present