The journal issue (Volume 52, Number 2, June 2009) aims to capture the excitement and energy that marks all AWID Forums with a range of articles on women’s organizing in rights and social movements from the grassroot to UN level. There is much to learn and celebrate here largely from women’s movements in the South on a range of issues around identity politics, fundamentalism, sexuality, women’s rights organizing, gender-based violence and HIV and AIDS.

In just a few pages Development cannot hope to capture all that was covered by such a full and diverse gathering. But it does give readers a chance to review critical issues that the Forum raised for development policy and action around gender injustice and subjugation. Articles touch on specific studies of women’s movement organizing around sexuality, identity, economic inequality, differential gender impacts of health and environment, gendered culture and social oppression. The journal’s strong message is that in these times of crisis it is crucial to underscore the links among sexuality, racism, gender-based violence and social and economic justice

CONTENTS

Upfront:

Thematic Section: Transforming Our World

• Southern Feminist Movement Building: A matter of difference, equality and transformative leadership, Tesa Casal de Vela and Mira Alexis P. Ofreneo
• Through the looking glass: Process and power within feminist movements, Jessica Horn
• Building Feminist Movement through ‘The Wings of the Butterfly’ Project (Las Alas de Mariposa), María Suárez Toro and Margaret E. Thompson
• Multigenerational Movement Building - What’s Next?, Sanushka Mudaliar
• Birthing and Growing the African Feminist Forum, Ayesha M. Imam

Dialogue: Building Feminist Organizations

• Beyond NGO-ization?: Reflections from Latin America, Sonia E. Alvarez
• Women’s Organizing in Ghana since the 1990s: From individual organizations to three coalitions, Dzodzi Tsikata
• Struggling for Survival and Autonomy: The Impact of NGO-ization on women’s organizations in Bangladesh, Sohela Nazneen and Maheen Sultan
• The European Romani Women’s Movement: The struggle for human rights, Rita Izsák Dalit, Jahnvi Andharia
• Against All Odds: The women’s movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Homa Hoodfar and Fatemeh Sadeghi-Givi
• Building a Grassroots Based Movement: GROOTS Kenya, Awino Okech

Local/Global Encounters: Movement Building in Context

• Disability Issues are Women’s Issues, Mijoo Kim
• Activism to Counter Gender-based Violence and HIV and AIDS: Overcoming obstacles to movement building in Papua New Guinea, Lina Abirafeh
• Mobilizing for Social Change in Muslim Societies Amidst Political Turmoil and Conservatism, Julian Lee
• The Korean Women’s Trade Unions, Namhee Park
• Working for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Central and Eastern Europe, Wanda Nowicka
• FIRE: Making sure women are part of the picture, María Suárez Toro

Book Shelf: Presents the books launched at the AWID Forum 2008

Window on the World: The networks of women around the world participating at the AWID Forum 2008

Who’s Who: Lists contacts of authors

Last Word: Women Speaking Out at the AWID Forum 2008

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