03459cam a2200433Ia 4500 ocn171145864 OCoLC 20171018091400.0 m d cr cn||||||||| 070913s2007 ne o 000 0 eng d 9781849505024 (electronic bk.) : �62.95 ; � 87.95 ; $111.95 1849505020 (electronic bk.) : �62.95 ; � 87.95 ; $111.95 0762314397 (hbk.) N$T eng N$T YDXCP BTCTA OCLCQ MERUC UBY ZJC HQ1154 .S87 2007 JFFK bicssc SOC010000 bisacsh 305 305.42 22 Sustainable feminisms [electronic resource] / edited by Sonita Sarker. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2007. 1 online resource (174 p.) Advances in gender research, 1529-2126 ; v. 11 Introduction: sustainable feminisms / Sonita Sarker -- The female body: practice and metaphor across the Maya-'American'continuum / Janferie Stone -- Caring for survival: motherwork and sustainable feminisms / Leah Schmalzbauer, Alice Verghese, Meenu Vadera -- Hailing the "authentic other": constructing the Third World woman as aid recipient in donor NGO agendas / Chilla Bulbeck -- From global to local feminisms: transnationalism, foreign aid and the women's movement in Ukraine / Alexandra Hrycak -- Sacrifice, abandonment, and interventions for sustainable feminism(s): the non-profit industrial complex and transborder substantive democracy / Anna M. Agathangelou, Tamara L. Spira -- The Anarcha Project: performing in the medical plantation / Petra Kuppers -- Sustainable networking: collaboration for women's human rights activists, scholars, and donors / Brooke Ackerly. This volume illuminates the encounter of feminist activism with scholarship in political science, cultural studies, sociology, ethnic studies, and economics. The essays contribute images of the forces that lead to the development of many different kinds of feminisms and womens movements across the globe in the 20th century and recently. They explore the cultural constructions and legitimations of sustainability during the processes through which various agents interpret the relevance of feminisms for their social and political initiatives. The volume offers new dimensions on the relationships across time and place among activisms and scholarships, as ways to contemplate how feminisms are sustainable and whether there is a future beyond sustainability. This book gives a genealogical account of various different kinds of feminisms. It offers new dimensions on the relationships across time and place among activisms and scholarships. It investigates and discusses how feminisms are sustainable. Description based on print version record. Feminism. Sustainable development. Women in development. Feminism & feminist theory. bicssc Social Science Feminism & Feminist Theory. bisacsh Sarker, Sonita, 1961- Print version: Sustainable feminisms. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2007 9780762314393 0762314397 (OCoLC)122283753 Advances in gender research ; v. 11 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1529-2126/11 SSbacklist 223128 223128