Drawing on interviews with Girl Up members globally, this book challenges criticisms of the campaign by demonstrating how girls have reflected critically on the Girl Up discourse, rejected its individualistic vision of girls’ empowerment and interacted with their Northern/Southern counterparts in a spirit of mutual learning and respect.
Зміст
1. Introduction
2. The Girl in Global Politics
3. Feminist Activism Within and Against Neoliberalism
4. The Girl Up Discourse
5. ‘We Need to Talk’: Celebrity Feminism and Girls’ Activism amid Global Crisis
6. Girls’ Readings of Girl Up
7. Girl Up Members’ Feminist Activism
8. Ubuntu Feminism in a Lilongwean Girl Up Club
9. ‘It’s Like, Do You Wanna Go to Girl Up or Do You Wanna Go to Tesco?’: Ambivalent Activism in the Global North
10. Crossing North–South Divides in Research with Girl Activists
11. Conclusions: Hope and False Hope in the Fight for Girls’ Rights
Про автора
Rosie Walters is Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics with research interests in feminist, poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches to international relations.
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