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

• CoverTitle PageCopyright PageTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Feminist Politics and Transnational Labor Movements2. Sexual Politics, Activism, and Everyday Life3. Sexual Politics, Labor, and the Family4. Political Spaces: Centers, Conferences, and Campaigns5. Feminist Politics in International Labor6. Women's Activism in the International Metalworkers' Federation7. Another World Is Possible for Women, If . . .8. Conclusion: The Future of Feminist Politics in Global Union MovementsNotesReferencesIndex