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Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor
Suzanne Franzway
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Description for Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor
Paperback. Applying feminist thinking to labor studies in a global context Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBL; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
In this timely and detailed examination of the intersections of feminism, labor politics, and global studies, Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow reveal the ways in which women across the world are transforming labor unions in the contemporary era. Situating specific case studies within broad feminist topics, Franzway and Fonow concentrate on union feminists mobilizing at multiple sites, issues of wages and equity, child care campaigns, work-life balance, and queer organizing, demonstrating how unions around the world are broadening their focuses from contractual details to empowerment and family and feminist issues. By connecting the diversity of women's experiences around the ... Read more
In this timely and detailed examination of the intersections of feminism, labor politics, and global studies, Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow reveal the ways in which women across the world are transforming labor unions in the contemporary era. Situating specific case studies within broad feminist topics, Franzway and Fonow concentrate on union feminists mobilizing at multiple sites, issues of wages and equity, child care campaigns, work-life balance, and queer organizing, demonstrating how unions around the world are broadening their focuses from contractual details to empowerment and family and feminist issues. By connecting the diversity of women's experiences around the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077920
SKU
V9780252077920
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About Suzanne Franzway
Suzanne Franzway is the director of the Research Center for Women's Studies and a professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of South Australia. Mary Margaret Fonow is the director of the School of Social Transformation and a professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University.
Reviews for Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor
"Making Feminist Politics is empirically rich and analytically nuanced. I do not know of another book with this breadth of focus. Ranging from the family to global governance and from internal politics in an international union to coalition-building at the World Social Forum, this is fascinating material."
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