"Global Feminisms" is an innovative and concise anthology considering the similarities and differences between feminisms in West and East, North and South, and highlighting class, racial, ethnic and imperial tensions and claims in the twentieth century. The contributors analyze the roots, development and, in some cases, the conclusions of feminisms and how they have interacted.
From the European and American feminist movements to those in the ex- Soviet Union and women's rights and groups in South Asia, "Global Feminisms" examines the key economic, technological, sexual, reproductive, ecological and political debates.
Contributors: " Margot Badron, Saba Bahar, Miriam Chung Yoon Louie, Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes, Mallika Dutt, Sara Evans, Alkarim Jivani, Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira, Sabine Lang, Vera Mackie, Zengie A." "Mangaliso, Wilhemina Odul, Katherine O'Sullivan, Zoreh T. Sullivan, Linda Racioppi, Mary Ann Tetreault."

Bonnie G. Smith is Professor of History at Rutgers University, and her many books include Changing Lives (Houghton Mifflin, 1989), The Gender of History (Harvard, 1998) and Confessions of a Concierge (Yale, 1985)

Introduction. Part 1. Nation Building 1. Competing Agenda: Feminisms, Islam, and the State, Margot Badran; 2. Women and Revolution in Vietnam, Mary Anne T^/etreault; 3. Gender and Nation-Building in South Africa, Zengie A. Mangaliso; Part 2. Sources of Activism 4. Female Consciousness or Feminist Consciousness? Women's Consciousness Raising in Community-Based Struggles in Brazil, Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes; 5. The Mother of Warriors and her Daughters: The Women's Movement in Kenya, Wilhelmina Odoul^n and Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira; 6. Minjung Feminism: Korean Women's Movement for Gender and Class Liberation, Miriam Chung Yoon Louie; Part 3. Women's Liberation 7. Born for Liberty: Decade of Discovery, Sarah Evans; 8. It's Not Unusual: Gay and Lesbian History in Britain, Alkarim Jivani; 9. Feminist Critiques of Modern Japanese Politics, Vera Mackie; Part 4. New Waves in the 1980s and 1990s 10. Organizing Women before and after the Fall: Women's Politics in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia, Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See; 11. Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modern? Transformations in Twentieth Century Iran, Zohreh T. Sullivan; 12. Human Rights are Women's Right: Amnesty International and the Family, Saba Bahar; 13. The NGOization of Feminism: Institutionalization and Institution Building within the German Women's Movement, Sabine Lang; 14. Some Reflections on US Women of Color and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China, Mallika Dutt