Defending Our Dreams Global Feminist Voices

This book brings together analyses by feminists of diverse identities on themes including women's rights and economic change, new technologies, sexuality, feminist organizations and movements. It presents key issues arising out of the experiences of young women living in both North and South, the challenges confronting young feminists, and the agenda for a new era of feminist leadership and activism.

Shamillah Wilson works for the Association for Women's Rights in Development AWID. Anasuya Sengupta is co-ordinator of a UNICEF project in Karnataka, India, working on violence against women and children. Kristy Evans was an intern with AWID, and is now studying public health at the University of Cape Town.

Acknowledgements

x

Foreword

xii

Peggy Antrobus

Introduction: our dreams, our nightmares, our voices

1

(1)

Shamillah Wilson

Anasuya Sengupta

Why this book?

2

(1)

What is this book?

3

(2)

Are we really gonna `make a difference'?

5

(3)

Will dualism tear us apart? The challenges of fragmentation in identity politics for young feminists in the New Global Order

8

(12)

Suzan Pritchett

The politics of irreconcilable differences

8

(2)

Why identity, why now?

10

(1)

The fragmenting impact of war and militarization

11

(1)

Fundamentalism's divisiveness

12

(2)

The challenge of globalization and neo-liberal economic restructuring

14

(1)

Divided and conquered?

15

(1)

The role of young feminist voices in overcoming fragmentation

16

(4)

Channelling discourse, effecting change: young women and sexual rights

20

(14)

Aziza Ahmed

Changing paradigms and global contexts

21

(5)

Situating young women: sexuality redefined in changing circumstances

26

(2)

Young women reshaping discourse

28

(3)

Conclusion

31

(3)

From tragedy and injustice to rights and empowerment: accountability in the economic realm

34

(15)

Alison Symington

Money makes the world go round

35

(5)

Alternatives in the works

40

(1)

Young women using human rights

41

(1)

Incoherence in international law

42

(4)

An economically just future?

46

(3)

Seeking techno-justice

49

(16)

Ann Elisabeth S. Samson

The politics of new technology

50

(1)

What exactly are the `new technologies'?

51

(1)

New genetic technologies

51

(2)

Robotics, surveillance and military technologies

53

(1)

Information and communication technologies

53

(1)

Nanotechnology

54

(1)

What does gender have to do with it?

55

(2)

Feminist engagement with science and technology

57

(1)

Making sense of technology and social justice

58

(1)

Ensuring gender justice in a techno-scientific world

59

(6)

Smoke screen or solution? Genetic engineering and food insecurity

65

(14)

Haidee Swanby

Shamillah Wilson

Genetic engineering (GE): the answer to food insecurity?

66

(1)

From the green to the gene revolution: can GE really stamp out hunger?

67

(1)

The costs of the new technology

68

(2)

Economic and political agendas

70

(3)

Strategies of resistance

73

(1)

Women's issues and feminist engagement

73

(1)

Struggling against globalization

74

(1)

Supporting ecological farming

75

(1)

Fighting for human women's rights

75

(4)

`You'll know what we are talking about when you grow older': a Third Wave critique of anti-trafficking ideology, globalization and conflict in Nepal

79

(16)

Sushma Joshi

The anti-trafficking movement

81

(1)

Purity

82

(3)

Kumari: the virgin goddess

85

(2)

`Rescue': an unviable strategy

87

(1)

A (very small and cramped) room of our own

88

(1)

The missing link: accountable leadership

89

(1)

A changing landscape

90

(2)

New models, new changes

92

(3)

From orphaned china dolls to long-distance daughters: a call for solidarity across borders

95

(15)

Indigo Williams Willing

The politics of transnational adoption

97

(3)

From a migration of china dolls

100

(1)

The adopted Vietnamese experience

101

(3)

Stepping outside the doll's house: strategies for creating a new world

104

(2)

Conclusion

106

(4)

www.coming? Imaginings on a world of wealth and well-being

110

(15)

Anasuya Sengupta

The vocabulary and language of poverty (from the archives 200--325 pre-Council; 1880--2005 AD)

112

(2)

The measurement of poverty and strategies of poverty alleviation (from the archives 200-325 pre-Council; 1880--2005 AD)

114

(5)

Feminist perspectives on poverty (from the archives 200--1100 pre-Council; 1105--2005 AD)

119

(6)

Reflections on the World Social Forum as a space for alternative engagements

125

(11)

Maria Alejandra Scampini

Promoting inter-movement engagement

127

(3)

Constructing alternative ways of acting

130

(2)

Young women taking on the challenges from within feminist movements

132

(1)

The age of consent

133

(3)

Rooting out injustice: discussions with radical young women in Toronto, Canada

136

(14)

Jennifer Plyler

Facing realities in Toronto, Canada

137

(2)

Liisa: the 30 June Committee

139

(1)

Farrah: Project Threadbare

140

(2)

Rachel: Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

142

(1)

Rafeef: Sumoud, a political prisoner solidarity group

143

(2)

Confronting oppression in relation to feminism

145

(1)

Challenges and strengths

146

(4)

A human rights instrument that works for women: the ICC as a tool for gender justice

150

(17)

Zakia Afrin

Amy Schwartz

Background

151

(2)

Achieving women's rights goals

153

(2)

A human rights tool

155

(1)

Young women's activism and the ICC

156

(2)

Limitations of the ICC for women's rights

158

(4)

The way forward

162

(1)

A note from Zakia Afrin

163

(4)

Cyber girls: hello ... are you out there?

167

(12)

Kristy Evans

Feminists using internet communications differently

168

(3)

The possibilities are endless -- but for whom?

171

(1)

The internet as an effective tool for feminists

171

(3)

Working across countries, continents and contexts

174

(1)

`I can't work today, the server is down'

175

(1)

Communication and technology -- by feminists, for feminists

176

(3)

Feminine whispers: notes on hysteria and loving commitment

179

(8)

Gabriela Malaguera Gonzalez

Scheherazade

179

(1)

Dora

180

(2)

The desiring woman

182

(1)

The overwhelmed man

183

(4)

We exist! Voices of male feminism

187

(14)

Dean Peacock

Interview with Dean Peacock, Rodney Fortuin, Boitshepo Lesetedi, Dumisani Rebombo, Mbuyiselo Botha and Regis Mtutu

189

(12)

Separation anxiety: the schisms and schemas of media advocacy, or `Where are you tonight, Langston Hughes?'

201

(11)

Paromita Vohra

`Women's issues' rather than feminism

202

(3)

Isms, schisms and schemas

205

(1)

The identikit and the moment of ambivalence

205

(4)

I wonder if it's that simple . . .

209

(3)

Moving the personal to the political: personal struggles as a basis for social justice advocacy

212

(12)

Salma Maoulidi

Situating myself

213

(3)

Working with inherent tensions

216

(1)

The origins of an identity

217

(1)

Defining the particular

218

(1)

Surviving the betrayal of ideals

219

(2)

Moving the personal to the public

221

(3)

Feminist leadership for feminist futures

224

(18)

Shamillah Wilson

Contemplating the task ahead

226

(1)

Starting with ourselves: the feminist movement's internal challenges

226

(4)

Passing on power -- what about the power in sharing?

230

(1)

Spirituality

231

(1)

Sustainability

231

(2)

Relation to other movements -- allies or adversaries?

233

(1)

The state and institutions of authority

234

(2)

Moving forward

236

(5)

You wonder why I say I'm feminist

241

(1)

Gabrielle Jamela Hosein

Editors and contributors

242

(5)

Index

247

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