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Abstracts for
August 30 , 2003
Feminist Scholarship and Society.....
Feminism, Activism and Society
Gender, History Education .....
Gender and Schooling:
Implications .....
The Male Marginalisation
thesis revisited.....
Challenging Gender Privileging:.....
Fatherhood in Risk Environments....

Men and Women in Love:
A changing Conjugality...

Caribbean Masculinities and Femininities:.....

Gender Politics and Media Production
Masculinity, the Political Economy of the Body.....
"Mama, Is that You?": Erotic Disguise .....
Shake that 'Booty' in Jesus' Name.....
Gender Dimensions of Social Capital...
Gender, Equity and Livelihoods .....
Women and Work: Policy Implications.....
The Challenge of Gender and the labour market ....
The Environment: Prospects .....
Female Emancipation and the Sewing Machine

Feminist Activism and Society
 

The paper considers the impacts of feminist activism on CARICOM society over the past 30 years. Using the author’s experience, it considers feminism’s influence on women in leadership positions and how this changed their politics and practice as they sought to influence the politics and programmes of women’s organizations, NGOs, government policy, key institutions and societal attitudes to women, taking account of the resistance encountered and support received along the way.

It argues that feminist activism working from within and outside various institutions achieved some of its objectives, although not always in ways that were favourable to its cause. It recognizes feminism as an on-going dialogic process that, despite its limitations, has the capacity to transform relationships and systems that are oppressive. Finally, it attempts to draw out the implications for feminist activism in today’s changing context.


 

 
       
         
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