Overview
- Makes visible the counter discourses to dominant economic and social policies
- Addresses the key issues of feminist knowledge and practice - around identity, fundamentalisms, public spheres and social movements
- Suggests knew forms of knowledge situated on the borders between activism and academia
- Contributes to new geographies of knowledge production, and to intercultural engagements with others
- Draws on the authors' strong academic and activist networks
Part of the book series: Gender, Development and Social Change (GDSC)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Politics of Place: Gender, Movements and Bodies
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Front Matter
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Points of View on Gender Politics, Rights and Bodies in Resistance
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About this book
As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions and networks. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the book looks at how feminists are engaged in a complex struggle for democratic power in a neoliberal age and at how resistance is integral to possibilities for change.
In making visible resistances to dominant economic and social policies, the book highlights how such struggles are both gendered and gendering bodies. The chapters explore struggles for healthy environments, sexual health and reproductive rights, access to abortion, an end to gender-based violence, the human rights of LGBTIQA persons, the recognition of indigenous territories and all peoples’ rights to care, love and work freely. The book sets out the violence, hopes, contradictions and ways forward in these civic innovations, resistances and connections across the globe.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Wendy Harcourt is Associate Professor in Critical Development and Feminist Studies at the International Institute of Social Sciences of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands. She joined the ISS in November 2011 after 20 years at the Society for International Development, Rome, Italy, as Editor of the journal Development and Director of Programmes. She has edited 10 books and won the FWSA prize in 2010 for her book Body Politics in Development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bodies in Resistance
Book Subtitle: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism
Editors: Wendy Harcourt
Series Title: Gender, Development and Social Change
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47780-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47779-8Published: 21 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69335-1Published: 15 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47780-4Published: 29 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2730-7328
Series E-ISSN: 2730-7336
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 362
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Theory, Gender Studies, Sociology of the Body, Political Sociology, Feminism, Development and Social Change