Beschreibung:
Written by leading women's movement scholars, this book is the first to systematically apply the idea of social movement abeyance to differing national and international contexts. Its starting point is the idea that the women's movement is over, an idea promoted in the media and encouraged by scholarship that regards disruptive action as a defining element of social movements. It goes on to compare the trajectories over the past 40 years of women's movements in Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Finally, it looks at the extension of feminist activism into supranational and subnational institutions-the global and the local-and into cyberspace.
1. Introduction Part 1: In Abeyance? 2. The State of Women's Movement/s in Britain 3. Autonomy and Engagement 4. Institutional, Incremental and Enduring 5. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The New Zealand Women's Movement 6. The Politics of Backlash in the United States and Japan Part 2: New Spaces 7. Gender Specialists and Global Governance: New Forms of Women's Movement Mobilisation? 8. Campaigns for Candidate Gender Quotas: A New Global Women's Movement? 9. Women in Cities 10. Cyberfeminism in Action Part 3: New Feminist Activists 11. New Voices. In Strong Hands: Young Women and the Future of Women's Movements. Australia. Canada. Japan. Korea. New Zealand. Scotland. United States