Abstract
Jessica Horn provides an account and analysis of a plenary at the AWID Forum in 2008 that looked at the internal dynamics and state of organizing within contemporary women's movements. It explores common experiences and tensions around negotiating power within movements and between activists themselves, and the ways in which the institutionalization of women's activism has affected these dynamics.
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Excerpt from ‘For the Women of Project Pride’, performed during the Plenary by Shailja Patel.
The presenters were Ayesha Imam (African Feminist Forum, Nigeria/Senegal), Rebéa Naciri (Association Démocratiques des Femmes du Maroc, Morocco), Sanushka Mudlair, (AWID, Asia/Australia), Morena Herrera Argueta (Feminist Collective for Local Development, El Salvador), Lynnsay Rongokea (Asia Pacific Forum for Women, Law and Development, Thailand), Pregs Govender (Women's Lip, South Africa) and Shailja Patel (Poet, Kenya).
The Charter is available at http://www.africanfeministforum.org/v/files/Charter_of_Feminist_Principles_for_African_Feminists.pdf
References
Batliwala, Srilatha (2008) Changing Their World: Concepts and practices of women's movements, Toronto, Mexico, South Africa: Association for Women's Rights in Development.
Jordan, June (1980) ‘Poem for South African Women’, in Passion: New poems, 1977–80, Boston: Beacon Press.
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Horn, J. Through the Looking Glass: Process and power within feminist movements. Development 52, 150–154 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2009.22
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2009.22