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Governance Feminism: An Introduction
Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state
Feminists walk the halls of power. Governance An Introduction shows how some feminists and feminist ideas—but by no means all—have entered into state and state-like power in recent years. Being a feminist can qualify you for a job in the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Criminal Court, the local prosecutor’s office, or the child welfare bureaucracy. Feminists have built institutions and participate in governance. The authors argue that governance feminism is institutionally diverse and globally distributed. It emerges from grassroots activism as well as statutes and treaties, as crime control and as immanent bureaucracy. Conflicts among feminists—global North and South; left, center, and right—emerge as struggles over governance. This volume collects examples from the United States, Israel, India, and from transnational human rights law. Governance feminism poses new challenges for How shall we assess our successes and failures? What responsibility do we shoulder for the outcomes of our work? For the compromises and strange bedfellows we took on along the way? Can feminism foster a critique of its own successes? This volume offers a pathway to critical engagement with these pressing and significant questions.
Feminists walk the halls of power. Governance An Introduction shows how some feminists and feminist ideas—but by no means all—have entered into state and state-like power in recent years. Being a feminist can qualify you for a job in the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Criminal Court, the local prosecutor’s office, or the child welfare bureaucracy. Feminists have built institutions and participate in governance. The authors argue that governance feminism is institutionally diverse and globally distributed. It emerges from grassroots activism as well as statutes and treaties, as crime control and as immanent bureaucracy. Conflicts among feminists—global North and South; left, center, and right—emerge as struggles over governance. This volume collects examples from the United States, Israel, India, and from transnational human rights law. Governance feminism poses new challenges for How shall we assess our successes and failures? What responsibility do we shoulder for the outcomes of our work? For the compromises and strange bedfellows we took on along the way? Can feminism foster a critique of its own successes? This volume offers a pathway to critical engagement with these pressing and significant questions.
304 pages, Paperback
Published March 13, 2018
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February 27, 2019
This book is extremely descriptive and helpful. I don’t think they leave many questions unanswered or explored; my only question is that I wonder about how to get these ideas across where feminism is less normalized/accepted. I have questions about audience and accessibility that I think can further the discussion posed by the book.
July 4, 2019
In the spirit of "learned a bunch", it gets four stars. There's plenty left to be desired in terms of the structure, language, etc.—and I'm sure I should read the field guide before actually commenting—but truth in advertising, a good intro to the concept and outcomes of GF thus far.
April 7, 2024
theory makes me want to scoop my eyes out with a melon baller but this was an amazing journey!
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