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Dialogue and Difference

Feminisms Challenge Globalization

M Waller author S Marcos author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave USA

Published:8th Apr '05

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This collection of essays encourages feminist scholars to embrace dialogue and difference, fostering coalitions across traditional divides in Dialogue and Difference.

In Dialogue and Difference, a diverse collection of essays by international feminist scholars and activists emphasizes the importance of inclusion and dialogue in contemporary scholarship. The authors argue that by relating seemingly disparate approaches to reality, they can foster coalitions that bridge the traditional divides of North/South and East/West. This collaborative effort, spanning fourteen weeks, challenges the notion of unity in feminist discourse, advocating instead for embracing dialogue and differences as a means to produce knowledge that informs effective political action.

The contributors to Dialogue and Difference engage in meaningful discussions that reflect the complexities of women's movements across various contexts and cosmologies. Their work highlights how these movements can address the challenges posed by corporate globalization, offering new empirical insights and theoretical frameworks. By foregrounding the significance of dialogue, the authors illustrate how diverse perspectives can contribute to a richer understanding of feminism and its role in global political landscapes.

Ultimately, Dialogue and Difference serves as a call to action for feminists and scholars alike, urging them to rethink their approaches to collaboration and knowledge production. It is a thought-provoking exploration of how embracing difference can lead to more effective and inclusive feminist activism, paving the way for a more equitable future.

"Drawing on diverse disciplinary and interdisciplinary backgrounds as well as divergent geographic and cultural experiences, the authors demonstrate the power of dialogue across difference for the creation of new feminist knowledges on social justice and social change. They show how seemingly opposing views can provide the basis for new conceptual frameworks that challenge more limited forms of feminism as well as provide resources for contesting oppressive modes of globalization. The authors critically assess how international conferences, human rights discourse, women s studies programs, and transnational feminist organizing as well as other sites of feminist practice can become vehicles for inclusion of the perspectives and political practice of feminists who are often left out of transnational feminist conversations and activism. One can only hope that others will take up this dialogic model and use it to transform transnational feminist praxis in more democratic and inclusive ways." - Nancy A. Naples, President, Sociologists for Women in Society and Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Connecticut

ISBN: 9781403967633

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 521g

259 pages

2005 ed.