Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations: Challenging or Maintaining the Status Quo?

WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS\nDedication\nContents\nImages, figures, maps and tables\n	Images\n	Figures\n	Maps\n	Tables\nAbout the authors\nAcknowledgements\nForeword\n1. Introducing the anthology\n	Introduction\n	Theoretical frames\n	Emancipation as a standpoint to challenge domination\n	The genesis of the anthology\n	Structure of the anthology\n	Overview of the first section\n	Overview of the second section\n2. ‘Empowerment’ as women’s emancipation? A global analysis of the empowerment paradigm and \rthe influence of feminism in women’s NGOs\n	Introduction\n	Women’s global inequality\n	Gender equality policy\n	Feminism, empowerment and the ‘empowerment paradigm’\n	Research findings: gender equality policy and practice in women’s NGOs\n	Conclusion\nSection One. Organising for emancipation\n3. Se Non Ora Quando? (‘If not now, when?’) The birth, growth and challenges of a new voice within the feminist scenario in Italy\n	Introduction\n	Methodological note\n	Italy: ‘the land that feminism forgot’1\n	The birth of the SNOQ movement\n	Growth of the movement: from the first ID card to the first national event in Siena\n	Organisation and management structure of the SNOQ movement\n	Media relations and agenda setting: fame, competence and strategy\n	The relationships with other feminist movements in Italy\n	The relationship with politics and political parties\n	Conclusions\n4. Street harassment activism in the twenty-first century\n	Introduction to street harassment: ‘Men always bother you, all the time’\n	The development of the movement to end street harassment\n	Government responses\n	Global activism in a digital age\n	The future of anti-street harassment activism\n	Conclusion\n5. New gender-political impulses from Eastern Europe: the case of Pussy Riot\n	The phenomenon of Pussy Riot: an introduction\n	The conditions for feminist activism: the state, religion and civil society in contemporary Russia\n	A close connection: the church and the state in Russia\n	Gender relations in Russia\n	Pussy Riot: feminist ‘anti-Putinism’\n	Pussy Riot as political protest\n	Pussy Riot as a religiously motivated protest\n	Pussy Riot as feminist protest\n	Pussy Riot and their critique of the economic system\n	Conclusion\n6. How a feminist activist group builds its repertoire of actions: a case study\n	Introduction\n	Conceptual framework\n	Empirical approach\n	La Barbe, a feminist activist group\n	‘La Barbe’s main performance: ‘congratulating organisations’\n	Interpreting La Barbe tactical repertoire\n	Relevance of La Barbe tactical repertoire for organisation studies\n	La Barbe influences and inspirations\n	Criticism of French feminism\n	La Barbe dialectical continuity with former feminisms\n	The theoretical inspirations of La Barbe\n	Conclusion\n7. From feminist extravagance to citizen demand: the movement for abortion legalisation in Uruguay\n	Introduction\n	The Uruguayan women’s movement\n	The process towards legalisation, 1985–2012\n	Movement and countermovement: the two faces of civil society\n	Organisations, leaders and alliances\n	Repertoire of actions and campaigns\n	Regional and international linkages and networks\n	Culture wars and the political battle for public opinion\n	Conclusion\n8. Sustainability from the bottom up: women as change agents in the Niger Delta\n	Introduction\n	Women, social movements and civil society in the Niger Delta\n	Measuring attitudes towards participation and women’s emancipation\n	Women’s empowerment as strategic decision-making\n	Women and social conflict in Nigeria\n	Women’s participation, power and agency\n	Towards a gendered justice agenda in the Niger Delta\nSection Two: Emancipating organisation(s)\n9. A women’s NGO as an incubator: promoting identity-based associations in Nepalese civil society\n	Introduction\n	CSOs, NGOs and IBAs in Nepal\n	A women’s NGO working towards transformation of the society\n	Promoting self-representation among trafficking survivors\n	Advantages and challenges faced by IBAs\n	Incubating another women’s IBA\n	Solidarity across sectors for an inclusive women’s movement\n	From an incubator to a partner\n	Why is an incubator necessary for IBAs?\n	Conclusion\n10. Gender democracy and women’s self-empowerment: a case of Somali diaspora civil society\n	Introduction\n	Empowerment in the Somali context\n	Gender mainstreaming through capacity-empowerment\n	Social remittances and transnational identities\n	The ‘meso’ level of capacity development\n	Somali civil society in diaspora\n	Somali diaspora CSOs and their contribution to women’s empowerment: some examples\n	Discussion\n	Conclusions\n11. The role of civil society organisations in emancipating Portuguese Roma women\n	Introduction\n	Social participation in southern European countries\n	The hidden heterogeneity of the southern European pattern\n	The emergence of Roma associational participation\n	Portuguese Roma civil society organisations\n	Methodology\n	Some findings\n	The associative engagement as part of a personal turning point\n	Concluding remarks\n12. Breaking down dichotomies in  the narratives of women’s activism in Morocco\n	Introduction\n	History of women’s activism\n	Methodology\n	Rights-based women’s activism\n	Faith-based women’s activism\n	Narratives of dichotomy\n	Similarities across divisions\n	Why the divided women’s civil society is hurting emancipation\n	Conclusion: the need for separate voices\n13. Working within associations: recognition in the public space for women?\n	Women’s employment in French associations\n	Methodology\n	A review of the relevant literature\n	Findings\n	Women’s jobs and distinctiveness of the voluntary sector\n	Discussion: enabling women’s access to public space or supporting the gendered status quo?\n	Conclusions\n14. Flexible working practices in charities: supporting or hindering women’s emancipation in the workplace\n	Flexible working and gender stereotypes\n	Why is flexible working important in the charity sector?\n	Investigation of flexible working in charities\n	Data analysis and outcomes\n	Concluding comments\n15. Examining and contextualising Kenya’s Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organisation (MYWO) through an African feminist lens\n	Introduction\n	The roots of Maendeleo\n	Reading into Maendeleo’s activities\n	Challenges of Maendeleo ya Wanawake\n	Nairobi, ‘the unfinished agenda’ and African feminisms\n	Maendeleo and the feminist agendas\n	The subaltern speaking?\n	Championing women’s rights under different rubrics: activists, feminists and womanists\n	A call for solidarity\n	Conclusion\n16. Organising for emancipation/emancipating organisations?\n	Introduction\n	Differing understandings of emancipation\n	Locations of domination: emancipation as a standpoint\n	How is domination to be resisted and emancipation achieved through organising?\n	Do CSOs reinforce or challenge the status quo?\n	Feminism as a global social movement?\n	Current strategies for action\nIndex