Majority-minority relations in contemporary women's movements : Strategic sisterhood

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Label

Majority-minority relations in contemporary women's movements : Strategic sisterhood

Title remainder

Strategic sisterhood

Statement of responsibility

Line Nyhagen Predelli, Beatrice Halsaa; With Cecile Thun, Adriana Sandu

Creator

• Predelli, Line Nyhagen, 1966-

Contributor

• Thun, Cecile
• Halsaa, Beatrice, 1947-
• Sandu, Adriana

Subject

• Feminism -- Norway
• Feminism -- Spain
• Minority women -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Great Britain
• Minority women -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Norway
• Minority women -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Spain
• Feminism -- Great Britain

Language

eng

Summary

This book examines contemporary relations between ethnic majority and ethnic minority women's movements in Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom, and women's movements' participation in and influence on public policy that focuses on violence against women.

Member of

• Online access with purchase: Palgrave Connect (Social Sciences Collection)
• Citizenship, gender and diversity

Cataloging source

UK-WkNB

Dewey number

305.42

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

White, Black, indigenous, national and ethnic minority women's movements in Europe are rooted in different communities and have emerged along separate paths. This book examines how relations between ethnic majority and minority women's movements in Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom have developed and are being talked about by movement activists. Different historical and socio-political factors, state structures, and social movement and civil society characteristics provide the background for why ethnic majority and minority women have organized separately along racial and ethnic lines. In turn, separate organizing, as well as differing political interests, have made it challenging for women's movement organizations to cooperate across racial and ethnic divides. A complex picture of conflict and disunity, as well as strategic sisterhood alliance, characterizes their relationships. This book examines the gender, racial and ethnic patterns of women's movement mobilization, the articulation of critiques against majority women's movements from minority women, responses from majority women's movements, and efforts at joint mobilization and strategic sisterhood in the area of violence against women