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Feminism-by-Design: Emerging Capitalisms, Cultural Feminism, and Women’s Nongovernmental Organizations in Postsocialist Eastern Europe

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Feminism-by-Design: Emerging Capitalisms, Cultural Feminism, and Women's Nongovernmental Organizations in Postsocialist Eastern Europe
Author(s)Ghodsee, Kristen
AbstractWomen of color within the United States as well as women from developing countries have attacked the hegemony of Western cultural feminism. The idea of a global sisterhood erases important differences in power and access to resources among women of varying races, ethnicities, and nationalities. These critiques, however, have often gone unheeded in the reconstruction projects of the former “second world.” Western feminists and their nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have been employed by the multilateral and bilateral aid communities to help women in former socialist countries survive the process of economic transformation. At the same time, many local women throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have resisted the importation of cultural feminist ideologies. They have stubbornly refused to develop a collective gendered identity to advocate for their own rights.
IssueNo3
Pages727-753
ArticleAccess to Article
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VolumeNo29
PubDate2004
ISBN_ISSN0097-9740
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