I. Introduction
1 Changing the Terms = 3
Community Activism, Globalization, and the Dilemmas of Transnational feminist praxis
Nancy A. Naples
2 Transnational Solidarity = 15
Women's Agency, Structural Adjustment, and Globalization
Manisha Desai
3 Women's Local and Translocal Responses = 34
A Introduction to the Chapters
Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai
II. Organizing Across Borders
4 Women to Women = 45
Dissident Citizen Diplomacy in Nicaragua
Clare Weber
5 From Mother's Rights to Equal Rights = 64
Post-Soviet Grassroots Women's Associations
Alexandra Hrycak
6 Las Mujers Invisibles/The Invisible Women = 83
Sharon Ann Navarro
7 Contesting Multiple Margins = 99
Asian Indian Community Activism in the Early
and Late Twentieth Century
Bandana Purkayastha
III. Localizing Global Politics
8 Creating alternatives from a Gender Perspective = 121
Transnational Organizing for Maqila Workers' Rights in Central America
Jennifer Bickham Mendez
9 Context, Sttategy, Ground = 142
Rural Women Organizing to Confront Local/GlobalEconomic Issues
Betty L, Wells
10 Linking Local Efforts with Global Struggle = 156
Trinidad's National Union of Domestic Employees
Marina Karides
11 Women Activists in Mali = 172
The Global Discourse on Human Rights
Susanna D. Wing
IV. Activism in and against the Transnational state
12 The Limits of Microcredit = 189
Transnational feminism and USAID Activities
tin the United States and Morocco
Winifred Poster and Zakia Salime
13 "No Discrimination Whatsoever" = 220
Women's Transnational Activism and
The Evolution of Eu Sex Equlity Policy
Rachel A. Cichowski
14 Redefining Security = 239
Okinawa Women's Resistance to U.S.Militarism
Yoko Fukumura and Martha Matsuoka
V. Conclusion
15 The Challenges and Possibilities of Transnational Feminist Praxis = 267
Nancy A. Naples
Bibliography = 283
Contributors = 323
Index = 327
1 Changing the Terms = 3
Community Activism, Globalization, and the Dilemmas of Transnational feminist praxis
Nancy A. Naples
2 Transnational Solidarity = 15
Women's Agency, Structural Adjustment, and Globalization
Manisha Desai
3 Women's Local and Translocal Responses = 34
A Introduction to the Chapters
Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai
II. Organizing Across Borders
4 Women to Women = 45
Dissident Citizen Diplomacy in Nicaragua
Clare Weber
5 From Mother's Rights to Equal Rights = 64
Post-Soviet Grassroots Women's Associations
Alexandra Hrycak
6 Las Mujers Invisibles/The Invisible Women = 83
Sharon Ann Navarro
7 Contesting Multiple Margins = 99
Asian Indian Community Activism in the Early
and Late Twentieth Century
Bandana Purkayastha
III. Localizing Global Politics
8 Creating alternatives from a Gender Perspective = 121
Transnational Organizing for Maqila Workers' Rights in Central America
Jennifer Bickham Mendez
9 Context, Sttategy, Ground = 142
Rural Women Organizing to Confront Local/GlobalEconomic Issues
Betty L, Wells
10 Linking Local Efforts with Global Struggle = 156
Trinidad's National Union of Domestic Employees
Marina Karides
11 Women Activists in Mali = 172
The Global Discourse on Human Rights
Susanna D. Wing
IV. Activism in and against the Transnational state
12 The Limits of Microcredit = 189
Transnational feminism and USAID Activities
tin the United States and Morocco
Winifred Poster and Zakia Salime
13 "No Discrimination Whatsoever" = 220
Women's Transnational Activism and
The Evolution of Eu Sex Equlity Policy
Rachel A. Cichowski
14 Redefining Security = 239
Okinawa Women's Resistance to U.S.Militarism
Yoko Fukumura and Martha Matsuoka
V. Conclusion
15 The Challenges and Possibilities of Transnational Feminist Praxis = 267
Nancy A. Naples
Bibliography = 283
Contributors = 323
Index = 327