Gender and Neoliberalism in India
The All India Democratic Women’s Association and Globalization Politics
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-96158-5
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1st February 2010
- Pages: 192
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Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Multiple Pasts: AIDWA and the Indian Post-Independence Women’s Movement 2. Gender and Socialist Ideology in the Nineties 3. Activist Research, Political Knowledge 4. Time and Money in Neoliberalism: The Building Blocks of Women’s Political Organization 5. In Solidarity: AIDWA’s Transnational Translation. Conclusion
About the Author(s)
Elisabeth Armstrong is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Smith College. She is the author of The Retreat from Organization: US Feminism Reconceptualized (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002). In addition, she has written "After the Tsunami: Women Fight for Fair Aid Distribution" (Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, 2006), "Globalization from Below: AIDWA, Foreign Funding and the Gendering of Violence" (Journal of Developing Societies, 2004) and [co-authored with Vijay Prashad] "Solidarity: War Rites and Women’s Rights" (CR: The New Centennial Review, 2005). She has studied the development of AIDWA since 1991, when she first went to live in New Delhi.