Changing their world: concepts and practices of women’s movements

This 2nd edition of Changing their World clarifies our concept of movements, especially feminist movements, by analyzing the experiences of strong and vibrant women’s movements in different parts of the world, to understand how they evolved, strategized, and made an impact.
In addition to the original 10 case studies, this second edition presents a revised conceptual framework and analysis, as well as featuring summaries of 4 new case studies documented between 2009 and 2010. These new case studies focus specifically on the movements of sex workers in Southwestern India, of lesbian women living in conditions of poverty in the Philippines, of the global disabled women’s movement-in-the-making, and of the women’s peace movement in war-torn Sudan.The 4 case studies give visibility to diverse expressions of women’s organizing whose movement building experiences that have traditionally not been part of mainstream women’s movements.
Sharing and understanding the experiences of these women and the emergent movements enriched and sharpened the conceptual framework presented in the first edition-as one that explicitly links organizational strengthening process to movement building from a feminist perspective.

Publisher: AWID
Edition: 2nd edition
Year of Publication: 2012