Making Feminist Politics

Suzanne Franzway is the director of the Research Center for Women's Studies and a professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of South Australia. Mary Margaret Fonow is the director of the School of Social Transformation and a professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University.

"Making Feminist Politics is empirically rich and analytically nuanced. I do not know of another book with this breadth of focus. Ranging from the family to global governance and from internal politics in an international union to coalition-building at the World Social Forum, this is fascinating material."--Catherine Eschle, coauthor of Making Feminist Sense of the Global Justice Movement "This is a book that has been needed for a long time. Rarely have I seen an analysis of women's roles in contemporary union organizing placed in an international context."--Nancy A. Naples, author of Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research "A compelling hundred-plus year history of organizing by union women within and across unions and borders."--Labor Studies Journal

• Acknowledgments vii Abbreviations ix 1. Feminist Politics and Transnational Labor Movements 1 2. Sexual Politics, Activism, and Everyday Life 24 3. Sexual Politics, Labor, and the Family 47 4. Political Spaces: Centers, Conferences, and Campaigns 67 5. Feminist Politics in International Labor 87 6. Women's Activism in the International Metalworkers' Federation 108 7. Another World Is Possible for Women, If ... 125 8. Conclusion: The Future of Feminist Politics in Global Union Movements 139 Notes 147 References 153 Index 177