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March/April 2010: Global feminism
In an age of intensifying global inequalities and social upheaval, how are women’s movements responding, particularly in the Global South and in marginalized communities? How are anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist feminists adapting their demands, tactics and strategies to changing circumstances? To what extent is liberal/Western/white/middle-class feminism aiding or inhibiting the struggles of women when these struggles intersect with issues of race, class, nationality and ethnicity? What are the emerging paradigms that will shape struggles for women’s autonomy in the decades to come? These are the sorts of questions we explore in our “global feminism” issue.
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In an age of intensifying global inequalities and social upheaval, how are women’s movements responding, particularly in the Global South and in marginalized communities? How are anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist feminists adapting their demands, tactics and strategies to changing circumstances? To what extent is liberal/Western/white/middle-class feminism aiding or inhibiting the struggles of women when these struggles intersect with issues of race, class, nationality and ethnicity? What are the emerging paradigms that will shape struggles for women’s autonomy in the decades to come? These are the sorts of questions we explore in our “global feminism” issue.
features
the gender of enlightenment
Female Buddhists face a glass ceiling in Thailand
By Gita Tewari
’words are powerful weapons’
The story of the speech that drove Malalai Joya underground
By Malalai Joya with Derrick O’Keefe
blanket condemnations
Contested feminisms and the politics of the burqa
By Erum Hasan
‘memsahib’ & ‘bourgeoisification of the brown nation’
Poems by Farah Shroff
no one answer
An interview with Marilyn Waring
By Brittany Shoot
cupcakes, gender, nostalgia
The commodification & consumption of girlhoods past
By Ondine Park & Tonya Davidson
profiles of feminism
The blind leading: Gender & eye care in the Global South
By Heather Wardle
The Honduran Committee for Peace Action: Women’s community organizing under pressure
By Angela Day
Forging ahead: The Ñaña knitters collective
By Teresa Krug
departments
letter from the editor
The next wave will come from the South
contributors’ bios
letters to the editor
review
J. R. Miller’s Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada
Reviewed by Tyler McCreary
comic: luz
“Riot Girl” by Claudia Dávila
quotes from the underground
Sojourner Truth, Eve Ensler, John Berger, Vandana Shiva, Minke-An Ligeon, Anasuya Sengupta, Robin Morgan
parting shots
Naming the violence that has taken our sisters
By Joyce Green
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