TY - BOOK AU - Basu,Amrita TI - Women´s movements in the global era: the power of local feminisms SN - 0813344441 U1 - 305.42090511 PY - 2010/// CY - Boulder, CO PB - Westview Press KW - Feminismo KW - Historia KW - Siglo XXI KW - Mujeres N1 - Incluye bibliografía; Introduction / Amrita Basu -- Africa. South African feminisms: a coming of age? / Elaine Salo ; Ramagwana Rakajeka: opportunities and challenges of the Zimbabwean women´s movement / Shereen Essof -- Asia. The women´s movement in Pakistan: challenges and achievements / Farida Shaheed ; Feminist deliberative politics in India / Kalpana Kannabiran ; The Chinese women´s movement in the context of globalization / Naihua Zhang, Ping-Chun Hsiung -- Europe. Polish feminism between the local and the global: a task of translation / Elzbieta Matynia ; Russian women´s activism: two steps forward, one step back / Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom -- Latin America. Contemporary feminisms in Brazil: achievements, shortcomings, and challenges / Cecilia M.B. Sardenberg, Ana Alice Alcantara Costa ; Seeking rights from the Left: gender and sexuality in Latin America / Elisabeth Jay Friedman ; Toward a culturally situated women´s rights agenda: reflections from Mexico / Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo -- The Middle East. The demobilization of a Palestinian women´s movement: from empowered active militants to powerless and stateless ´citizens´ / Islah Jad ; The women´s movement and feminism in Iran: a global perspective / Nayereh Tohidi -- The United States. Intersecting oppressions: rethinking women´s movements in the United States / Julie Ajinkya ER -