Why gender matters in activism: feminism and social justice movements

Gender and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 277-293

  Bhattacharjya, Manjima ^a   Birchall, Jenny ^b   Caro, Pamela ^a   Kelleher, David ^c   Sahasranaman, Vinita ^a  

^a c/o G and D Editorial Office ^*  (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c not available   (Canada)

Author keywords

activism; Amnesty International; equality; feminism; gender; human rights; Occupy; social movements; Via Campesina

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880298586     PISSN: 13552074     EISSN: 13649221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2013.802150     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Adam, Karla 2011 ' Occupy America: protests against Wall Street and inequality hit 70 cities ', The Washington Post, 15 October
2. Amnesty International 1994 Women's Rights Are a Human Right, London: Amnesty International
3. Batliwala, Srilatha 2007 When rights go wrong, Seminar 567: 89
4. Batliwala, Srilatha 2012 Changing Their World: Concepts and Practices of Women's Movements, Toronto: Association for Women's Rights in Development
5. Batliwala, Srilatha, and Lloyd David Brown 2006 Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction, West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press
6. Bunch, Charlotte 1990 Women's rights as human rights: towards a re-vision of human rights, Human Rights Quarterly 12: 486 - 98 doi: 10.2307/762496
7. Datta, Bishakha 2011 Ain't I a Woman? A Global Dialogue Between the Sex Workers' Rights Movement and the Stop Violence Against Women Movement, India: CREA
8. Facio, Alda 1995 From basic needs to basic rights, Gender & Development 3 2: 16 - 22 doi: 10.1080/741921804
9. Horn, Jessica forthcoming Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Social Movements overview report, Brighton, UK: BRIDGE, Institute of Development Studies
10. Kelleher, David, and Manjima Bhattacharjya forthcoming The Amnesty International Journey: Women and Human Rights, Brighton, UK: BRIDGE, Institute of Development Studies
11. Molyneux, Maxine 1985 Mobilization without Emancipation? Women's Interests, the State, and Revolution in Nicaragua. Feminist Studies 11 2, 227 - 54
12. Price, Janet 2012 ' The seeds of a movement: disabled women and their struggle to organise ', in Srilatha Batliwala, Changing Their World: Concepts and Practices of Women's Movements, Toronto: Association for Women's Rights in Development
13. Rao, Aruna, and David Kelleher 2005 Is there life after gender mainstreaming?, Gender & Development 13 2: 57 - 69 doi: 10.1080/13552070512331332287
14. Sandler, Joanne, and Aruna Rao 2012 Strategies of Feminist Bureaucrats: United Nations Experiences, Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies
15. Sawney, Mindy, and Ravindran Daniel 2010 Amnesty International Working with Others: An Independent Review, London: Amnesty International
16. Shah, Svati P. 2011 Sex Work and Women's Movements, New Delhi and New York: CREA
17. Spees, Pam 2003 Women's advocacy in the creation of the international criminal court: changing the landscapes of justice and power, Signs 28 4: 1233 - 54 doi: 10.1086/375498
18. Wallace, Tina, and Helen Baños Smith 2010 A Synthesis of the Learning from the Stop Violence Against Women Campaign 2004-10, London: Amnesty International
19. Walters, Joanna 2011 ' Occupy America: protests against Wall Street and inequality hit 70 cities ', The Observer, 8 October