A Brave New Series
GLOBAL ISSUES
IN A CHANGING WORLD
This new series of short, accessible think-pieces deals with leading global issues of relevance to humanity today. Intended for the enquiring reader and social activists in the North and the South, as well as students, the books explain what is at stake and question conventional ideas and policies. Drawn from many different parts of the world, the series authors pay particular attention to the needs and interests of ordinary people, whether living in the rich industrial or the developing countries. They all share a common objective: to help stimulate new thinking and social action in the opening years of the new century.
Global Issues in a Changing World is a joint initiative by Zed Books in collaboration with a number of partner publishers and non-governmental organizations around the world. By working together, we intend to maximize the relevance and availability of the books published in the series.
Participating NGOs
Both ENDS, Amsterdam
Catholic Institute for International Relations, London
Corner House, Sturminster Newton
Council on International and Public Affairs, New York
Dag Hammarskjld Foundation, Uppsala
Development GAP, Washington DC
Focus on the Global South, Bangkok
IBON: Manila
Inter Pares, Ottawa
Public Interest Research Centre, Delhi
Third World Network, Penang
Third World NetworkAfrica, Accra
World Development Movement, London
About this series
Communities in the South are facing great difficulties in coping with global trends. I hope this brave new series will throw much-needed light on the issues ahead and help us choose the right options.
Martin Khor, Director, Third World Network, Penang
There is no more important campaign than our struggle to bring the global economy under democratic control. But the issues are fearsomely complex. This Global Issues series is a valuable resource for the committed campaigner and the educated citizen.
Barry Coates, Director, Oxfam New Zealand
Zed Books has long provided an inspiring list about the issues that touch and change peoples lives. The Global Issues series is another dimension of Zeds fine record, allowing access to a range of subjects and authors that, to my knowledge, very few publishers have tried. I strongly recommend these new, powerful titles and this exciting series.
John Pilger, author
We are all part of a generation that actually has the means to eliminate extreme poverty worldwide. Our task is to harness the forces of globalization for the benefit of working people, their families and their communities that is our collective duty. The Global Issues series makes a powerful contribution to the global campaign for justice, sustainable and equitable development, and peaceful progress.
Glenys Kinnock MEP
About the author
Peggy Antrobus was born in Grenada and educated there and in St Lucia and St Vincent. She holds a bachelors degree in economics, a professional certificate in social work and a doctorate in education. She has been employed in government and NGO programmes in St Vincent, Jamaica and Barbados.
Since 1974, when she was appointed as Advisor on Womens Affairs to the Government of Jamaica, she has worked in the field of Women in Development. In 1987 she set up the Women and Development Unit (WAND) within the School of Continuing Studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and was its head until her retirement in 1995.
She was a founding member of CAFRA (the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action). She was also a founding member of DAWN, the network of Third World women promoting Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era; its Coordinator 199096; and on its Steering Committee 19902004.
She has written and spoken on a number of topics related to the issues of women and development, and womens organizing, and has contributed to various publications on these topics.
Her recent work focuses on the impact of government policies on women, and the ways in which these policies reflect global trends. She has a special interest in transformational leadership in the womens movement. She describes women who exhibit this kind of leadership as feminists with a passion for justice and a commitment to change things and change themselves.
PEGGY ANTROBUS
The Global Womens Movement
Origins, issues and strategies
University Press Ltd
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BANGKOK
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The Global Womens Movement: Origins, issues and strategies was first published in 2004 by:
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This ebook edition was first published in 2013
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Copyright Peggy Antrobus, 2004
The right of Peggy Antrobus to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988
Cover designed by Andrew Corbett
Set in Monotype Dante and Gill Sans Heavy by Ewan Smith, London
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library US CIP data is available from the Library of Congress Canadian CIP data is available from the National Library of Canada
ISBN 978 1 84813 693 9
Contents
Abbreviations and acronyms
| AAWORD | African Association for Womens Research and Development |
| AWID | Association for Womens Rights and Development |
| CSOs | Civil society organizations |
| CWGL | Center for Womens Global Leadership (based in Rutgers University, USA) |
| DAWN | Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era |
| FIRE | Feminist International Radio Endeavor (based in Costa Rica) |
| GNP | Gross national product |
| IAFE | International Association for Feminist Economics |
| ICPD | International Conference on Population and Development |
| IFIs | International financial institutions (e.g. the World Bank) |
| IGTN | International Gender and Trade Network |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
