This ground-breaking collection investigates the relationship between feminist activism and legal reform as a pathway to gender justice and social change.
Since the advent of feminist movements legal reform has been a popular and yet contentious vehicle for seeking women s rights and empowerment. This important book looks at comparative insights drawn from field-based research on the processes, the challenges, and the outcomes of legal reform and feminist activism. Feminist Activism, Women's Rights, and Legal Reform brings together cases from Middle East, Latin America, and Asia of the...

Voicing Demands is a collection of analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice, a key pathway to women s empowerment. These narratives depart from the existing debate on women s political engagement in formal institutions to examine feminist activism for building and sustaining constituencies through raising, negotiating and legitimizing women s voice under different contexts.
Bringing together the reflections and experiences of feminist researchers and activists in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, this unique volume explores how various global...