| Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Waller, M. (Author), Marcos, S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403967644 ISBN-13: 9781403967640 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $56.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: Contemporary feminists face the labor of moving beyond the dominant paradigms of knowledge and communication that drive corporate globalization. "Dialogue and Difference," a new collection edited by Marguerite Waller and Sylvia Marcos, provides students with groundbreaking essays by an international group of feminist scholars and activists who stress the need to put different approaches to reality and to scholarship into relation in order to build coalitions across the usual North/South, East/West divides. Modeling ways to weave these connections, the authors take difference, rather than isomorphic similarity, to be the basis for effective anti-imperial feminist theory and practice. These dialogues among women's movements bridge profound differences in historical, economic, and political circumstance, language, culture, and fundamental "cosmovision." Such differences are welcomed by contributors as practical resources, rather than as obstacles, in feminist challenges to corporate globalization. "Dialogue and Difference" is an essential collection for professors and students interested in globalization, development, gender studies, and activism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Women's Studies - Political Science | Globalization |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| LCCN: 2004054119 |
| Series: Comparative Feminist Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.72" W x 8.26" (0.75 lbs) 259 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Calling for inclusion and dialogue, these essays by an international group of feminist scholars and activists stress the need to put into relation seemingly discrepant approaches to reality and to scholarship in order to build coalitions across the usual North/South and East/West divides. This diverse group of authors, who spent fourteen weeks working collaboratively, dispense with unity and seek instead to use dialogue and difference in their production of knowledge about effective political action. The dialogues materialized here among women's movements that have emerged within different contexts and cosmologies take feminisms' challenges to contemporary corporate globalization in new empirical and theoretical directions. |