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Fast Forward

Work, Gender, and Protest in a Changing World

By: Torry D. Dickinson,Robert K. Schaeffer

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Fast Forward

Work, Gender, and Protest in a Changing World

By: Torry D. Dickinson,Robert K. Schaeffer

This innovative, global feminist analysis of work and politics examines the diverse problems and related protests of women and men who labor to make ends meet in a rapidly-changing world. Using vivid examples from around the world, it reveals how "globalization" is reshaping social institutions and lives. Fast Forward explores how businesses and states reshaped and redistributed work around the world during the last 30 years of "globalization," often with adverse consequences. Within this fast-moving context, laboring people today engage in work outside of formal employment, try to obtain survival resources, mount a diverse array of often women-centered protests against firms and states, and try--on their own terms--to reinvent work and democratic political practices. Portraying the human face of global change, Fast Forward shows how overlapping social movements wrestle with economic and political marginalization, and initiate highly diverse, but related attempts to change the way the world works.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

0742508951

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9780742508958

Democracy Works

Joining Theory and Action to Foster Global Change

By: Torry D. Dickinson,Terrie A. Becerra,Summer B.C. Lewis

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Democracy Works

Joining Theory and Action to Foster Global Change

By: Torry D. Dickinson,Terrie A. Becerra,Summer B.C. Lewis

Throughout the world, from the United States to Tanzania, Chechnya, and Sri Lanka, people increasingly work together and take actions to improve their lives, end inequality, and change global society. Action groups and movements see dialogue and learning as important ways to extend democracy and, with their inclusiveness, remake society. By putting strategy with theory, local groups and movements are able to begin making changes in civil society and institutions that allow people to begin living in new ways. Written for activists, people, and students interested in change, this book takes readers on a journey of discovery as it shows how various groups have brought theory and action together to make urban, rural, and transnational change. The case studies and explanatory articles reveal how feminist, antiracist, ecological, and peace movements reinforce each other to initiate and achieve well-placed and enduring change.

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273

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Routledge

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1317261488

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9781317261483

Transformations

Feminist Pathways to Global Change

By: Torry D. Dickinson,Robert K. Schaeffer

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Transformations

Feminist Pathways to Global Change

By: Torry D. Dickinson,Robert K. Schaeffer

Bringing feminist and world-systems theories together, this analytic anthology examines the rise of intersecting, women-centered movements that contribute to alternative development and the rise of new societies. The authors consider feminist movements and humanistic transformations that create new work and market relations, promote democracy and equality, redefine gender and sexuality, regenerate the environment, and construct nonviolent and peaceful relations. At the end of each chapter, articles by feminist theorists and practitioners on these topics are included to illustrate the analysis. Using a global, historical framework, the book shows how diverse, multicultural, and international feminist ideas can be brought together to provide a comprehensive and differentiated understanding of change.

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1317250206

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9781317250203

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