Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective provides a clear, detailed introduction to
women's political participation and representation across a wide range of countries and …

Sonia Alvarez reconsiders what she had earlier labelled 'the Latin American feminist NGO
boom'of the 1990s. She offers reflections on how and why, at least in that region of the world …

Theorizing NGOs examines how the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has
transformed the conditions of women's lives and of feminist organizing. Victoria Bernal and …

Body Politics in Development sets out to define body politics as a key political and
mobilizing force for human rights in the last two decades. This passionate and engaging …

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), their targets and their indicators have
dominated development discourse in the last two decades, being upheld as the gold …

This book analyzes the World Social Forum (WSF) in a context of crisis and transition in the
history of Western capitalist modernity. Based on ten years of fieldwork on three continents …

Globalisation and global human rights are the two major forces in the twentyfirst century
which are likely to shape the sort of learner citizen created by the educational system …

Critical reviewers of gender mainstreaming as a practice agree that its transformatory
potential has remained unfulfilled. This paper, based on radical readings of three …

This groundbreaking text explores the dramatic evolution in Latin American social
movements over the past fifteen years. Leading scholars examine a variety of cases that …

Since the early 2000s, disappointment has grown about the realization of the transformative
potential that was ascribed to gender mainstreaming at its launch at the Beijing conference …