Democratization and Women's Grassroots

The book illustrates how community-based actions, programs, and organizations that allow women to determine their lives and participate in decision making contribute to the creation of a civil society and thus enhance democracy. The case studies show how participation in grassroots movements promotes women's involvement in their organizations, communities, and in societal institutions, as it influences state policy and empowers women in personal relationships.

JILL M. BYSTYDZIENSKI is Director of Women's Studies and Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University. She is author of many articles and book chapters on women in politics and cross--cultural comparisons of women, as well as several books, including Women Transforming Politics: Worldwide Strategies for Empowerment and Women in Electoral Politics: Lessons from Norway.

JOTI SEKHON is Associate Professor of Sociology at Greensboro College, where she is also the coordinator of the International Studies Program. She is author of Modern India, a volume in the Comparative Societies series from McGraw-Hill.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

1

(24)

Jill M. Bystydzienski

Joti Sekhon

PART ONE: Asia

25

(70)

1. Grassroots Social Action and Empowerment in India The Case of Action India Women's Program

25

(24)

Joti Sekhon

2. Re-Inheriting Women in Decolonizing Hong Kong

49

(18)

Irene Lik Kay Tong

3. Democracy at the Margins: NGOs and Women's "Unofficial" Political Participation in Singapore

67

(28)

Meredith L. Weiss

PART TWO: Africa and the Middle East

95

(78)

4. Exchanging Participation for Promises: Mobilization of Women in Eritrea

95

(16)

Susan Leisure

5. Democratization through Adult Popular Education: A Reflection on the Resilience of Women from Kwa-Ndebele, South Africa

111

(18)

Khanya Rajuili

Ione Burke

6. Self-Identity as a Form of Democratization The Syrian Experience

129

(21)

Nimat Hafez Barazangi

7. Women's Grassroots Movements and Democratization in Egypt

150

(23)

Nawal H. Ammar

Leila S. Lababidy

PART THREE: Central America

173

(44)

8. Women and Grassroots Democracy in El Salvador The Case of Comunidad Segundo Montes

173

(23)

Elizabeth Cagan

9. Feminist Organizations and Grassroots Democracy in Honduras

196

(21)

Charles McKelvey

PART FOUR: Eastern Europe

217

(48)

10. New Roads to Resistance Polish Feminists in the Transition to Democracy

217

(24)

Judy Root Aulette

11. From the Ground Up: Women's Organizations and Democratization in Russia

241

(24)

Jane F. Berthusen Gottlick

PART FIVE: Western Europe, North America, and Australia

265

(110)

12. Building Democratic Bridges over Belgian Political Bastions The Work of the VOK--Women's Consultation Committee

265

(19)

Alison E. Woodward

Rita Mulier

13. Women's Participation in Grassroots Initiatives in Ireland

284

(21)

Christopher Dale

14. Sexual Assault and the Canadian State: Participatory Democracy Struggles within a Liberal Democracy

305

(23)

Alicja Muszynski

15. Empowerment and Disempowerment of Women in Central Appalachia, U.S.A.

328

(24)

Nelda K. Pearson

16. Women in Agriculture: Action for More Democratic Australian Farm Politics

352

(23)

Ruth Liepins

Conclusion

375

(18)

Joti Sekhon

Jill M. Bystydzienski

About the Editors and Contributors

393

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