 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com * Highlights the interrelations between place, gender, politics, and justice.
* Draws upon women's place-based experiences across the globe.
In Women and the Politics of Place, Wendy Harcourt and Arturo Escobar analyze women's economic and social justice movements by challenging traditional views. The authors reveal how an interrelated set of transformations around body, environment, and the economy factors into place-based practices of women and how these provide alternative ways of advancement in these mobilizations.
The book develops a conceptual framework based on the most current debates in anthropology, geography, ecology, feminist, and development studies. This guides academics, activists, and policymakers toward an understanding of how women are politically negotiating globalization.
Also featured are the experiences of women working to defend their homelands on isses such as reproductive rights, land and community, rural and urban environments, and global capital. Written for wide use by academics, students, and practitioners, Women and the Politics of Place bridges the division between academic and activist knowledge with an original analysis of global feminist issues. Average Customer Rating: 
Chapters delve into women's concerns and the forces which shape them
| Customer Rating: | Wendy Harcourt and Arturo Escobar's Women And The Politics Of Place analyzes women's economic and social justice movements, again assuming a scholarly, college-level audience is studying the new framework for considering women's issues in light of their culture and modern world events. From women's reproductive rights and the politics of community economics and involvement to the control of public space, chapters delve into women's concerns and the forces which shape them.
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