Includes bibliographical references and index.

Facets of Emancipation: Women in Movement from the Eighteenth Century to the Present / Sheila Rowbotham -- Uncommon Women and the Common Good: Women and Environmental Protest / Temma Kaplan -- Women, 'Community' and the British Miners' Strike of 1984-85 / Meg Allen -- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Women's Self-Mobilization to Overcome Poverty in Uganda / Sylvia Tamale -- Adithi: Creating Economic and Social Alternatives / Viji Srinivasan -- New Roots for Rights: Women's Responses to Population and Development Policies / Navtej K. Purewal -- Nicaraguan Women in the Age of Globalization / Stephanie Linkogle -- Sexual Politics in Indonesia: From Soekarno's Old Order to Soeharto's New Order / Saskia E. Wieringa -- Creating Alternative Spaces: Black Women in Resistance / Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters interviewed by Paminder Parbha -- Individual and Community Rights Advocacy Forum: Campaigning for Women's Rights in Papua New Guinea / Orovu Sepoe -- Implementation of the Gender Demands Included in the Guatemala Peace Accords: Lessons Learned / Clara Jimeno.

Globalization has intensified the pressures on poor women. They have resisted in both the North and the South in movements that are exclusively female or where women play a significant part. Women Resist Globalization brings together scholars and organizers to record and analyse women's grassroots activism in two key areas: claims to livelihood and human rights.

Opening with an historical account of differing facets of women's action for emancipation, this book goes on to look at more recent examples of diverse resistance: women fighting for environmental and reproductive rights, mobilizing against poverty and racism, fighting the inequalities imposed by structural adjustment programmes, and campaigning for human rights.

Through cases ranging from the British miners' strike to making gender central to the Guatemalan peace process, the book documents activists challenging the boundaries of prevailing assumptions of work, environment, reproduction, community, democracy and indeed politics. It contributes to the ongoing debate about the scope of women's movements, while demonstrating how women's activism around needs and rights is a crucial element in the global struggle for equality and justice. Essential reading for students and academics in women's studies, development, politics, sociology, geography and labour studies - as well as for activists everywhere.