The Remaking of Social Contracts Global feminists in the 21st Century

Global citizens' struggles today stress the building of effective links between development agencies in the voluntary sector, environmental organizations, and the women's movement. DAWN - Development Action for Women Network - which has long brought together many leading Third World women thinkers and activists, has been vigorously contributing to developing such linkages between the different approaches to and struggles for economic justice and gender justice. In this volume, DAWN sets out the analyses they have developed during two decades of research, thinking and political work. In the context of a powerful analytic framework that takes account of the changing circumstances and issues confronting women at the beginning of the 21st century, DAWN argues from a feminist perspective for reinventing social contracts to fulfil the promise of human rights. This is intended to provide a holistic and radical understanding of the synergies, tensions and contradictions between social movements and global, regional and local processes on the one hand, and feminist perspectives and goals on the other. The specific issues addressed include:· A feminist analysis and critique of current approaches to global governance;· The diversity of issues confronting feminists at the level of the nation state in all its diversity;· Religious fundamentalism which, despite its variety of religious expressions , has at its heart an agenda aiming at control over women; · The struggle for livelihoods and for control over women's bodies and lives;· The practical issues raised by alliances, coalition-building attempts and gender politics within movements for social change.

Gita Sen is DAWN's research coordinator on the Political Economy of Globalisation, and a professor of public policy at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. She has been for many years a feminist analyst, activist and advocate on globalisation, and on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Well known as the author of many publications on these subjects and on gender and development more generally, she has also been a key advocate in global and regional arenas linked to both the International Conference on Population and Development and the Fourth World Conference on Women. She is on many national and international committees and is co-coordinator of the knowledge network on Women and Gender Equity for the WHO's Independent Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. One of the her best known books is the first DAWN boo k, Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives.

PART I: INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW; Gita Sen
PART II: GOVERNING GLOBALIZATION
1. Marketising Governance; Marina Durano
2. Political Economy versus Human Rights; Aldo Caliari
3. Financialization, Distribution and Inequality; Stephanie Seguino
4. New Poles of Capital Accumulation; Yao Graham and Hibist Kassa
5. The Modern Business of War; Oscar Ugarteche
Box II.1. Militarisation, Illicit Economies and Governance; Adebayo Olukoshi
Box II.2. Challenges to Multilateralism; Barbara Adams
PART III: POLITICAL ECOLOGY AND CLIMATE JUSTICE
6. Climate Non-Negotiables; Anita Nayar
7. Geo-engineering: A Gender Issue?; Diana Bronson
8. Land Grabs, Food Security, and Climate Justice; Zo Randriamaro
Box III.1. Green Economy and Fiscal Stimulus; Marina Durano
PART IV: SECULARISM AND BIO-POLITICS
9. The Re-making of a Secular Contract; Fatou Sow, Vanita Mukherjee, Magaly Pazello 
10. Stepping Forwards and Backwards: the Struggle for Bodily Autonomy; Sundari Ravindran 
11. Sexuality, Gender and Bio-politics; Rosalind Petchesky
Box IV.1. HIV/AIDS and SRHR; RD Marte 
Box IV.2. Abortion: the Ongoing Struggle; Erica Troncoso 
Box IV.3. MDGs, SRHR, and Poverty Reduction Policies; Bhavya Reddy
PART V: FRONTIER CHALLENGES FOR STATES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
12. The State of States; Claire Slatter and Cecilia Ng 
13. Conflict and Peace-Building: Women Against Violence; Kumi Samuel 
14. Fundamentalisms and Secular Governance; Amrita Chacchi  
15. Social Movements Negotiating Social Contracts; Peggy Antrobus and Josefa Francisco
Box V.1. Privatisation of Global Security; Rubina Saigol 
Box V.2. ICT: Efficient Exploitation or Feminist Tool?; Cai Yi Ping 
Box V.3. DAWN, The Promise and Pitfalls of UN Women
Box V.4. Young Feminists Speak
PART VI: CONCLUDING CHAPTER