Gender And Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women's Association And Globalization Politics'

Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, and the Center for American Studies and Research   Cordially invite you to a lecture and book launch 'Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women's Association and Globalization Politics' byDr. Elisabeth Armstrong Thursday, March 6th, 2014 | 1:00 - 3:30 pm Building 37 CASAR (Behind the Old Observatory) - AUB In 1991, structural adjustments began in earnest in India. The nation’s leaders reduced social spending and dismantled protections and supports for the national economy. The social and political policy changes rippled outwards, and All India Democratic Women’s Association’s (AIDWA) members alongside the wider Indian women’s movement felt the shock waves of their effects. Invocations of religious, regional and ethnic sectarianism tore the fabric of the women’s movement from within and defeated its core strategy of building women’s unity through shared concerns. Through ethnographies of political campaigns that stretched across the 1990s into the new century, this book details AIDWA’s creative response to increased violence and fragmentation among disenfranchised rural and urban women.Elisabeth Armstrong is visiting faculty member at AUB and an Associate Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. Her first book, “The Retreat from Organization: US Feminism Reconceptualized”, was published in 2002 by SUNY Press. Discussant: Lina Abu Habib is the Director of the Collective for Research and Training on Development - Action Note: Event will be in English [source]