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Publication:
Changing Their World: Concepts and Practices of
Women’s Movements - 2nd Edition
05/08/2011
Updated
with New Case Study Summaries, New Introduction and New Lessons Learned
Edited by
Srilatha Batliwala
This 2nd
edition of Changing their World clarifies our concept of movements, especially
feminist movements, by analyzing the experiences of strong and vibrant women’s
movements in different parts of the world, to understand how they evolved,
strategized, and made an impact.
In
addition to the original 10 case studies, this second edition presents a
revised conceptual framework and analysis, as well as featuring summaries of 4
new case studies documented between 2009 and 2010. These new case studies focus
specifically on the movements of sex workers in Southwestern India, of lesbian
women living in conditions of poverty in the Philippines, of the global
disabled women’s movement-in-the-making, and of the women’s peace movement in
war-torn Sudan.The 4 case studies give visibility to diverse expressions of
women’s organizing whose movement building experiences that have traditionally
not been part of mainstream women’s movements.
Sharing and understanding the experiences of these
women and the emergent movements enriched and sharpened the conceptual
framework presented in the first edition—as one that explicitly links
organizational strengthening process to movement building from a feminist
perspective.