The collection of essays outlines how feminists employ a variety of online platforms, practices, and tools to create spaces of solidarity and to articulate a critical politics that refuses popular forms of individual, consumerist, white feminist empowerment in favor of collective, tangible action.

This book examines women’s movements and women’s collective action in Africa. Steady begins her examination in pre-colonial times, moving through the colonial period to the present. She looks at the various arenas which collective action has and can influence, comparing the impact on economic growth, education, democratizations, family formation, and women’s rights.

One of the first single-authored books to survey the role of sex and gender in the ‘new imperial history’, Gender and Empire covers the whole British Empire, demonstrating connections and comparisons between the white-settler colonies, and the colonies of exploitation and rule.

Women have long been the mainstay of communities and heavily involved in community initiatives in various guises. Though often the unsung heros of community action, women’s role in a community’s growth and development has become increasingly important in a globalising world that has changed considerably since the first edition of this classic text was published.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Women are at the heart of civil society organisations. Through them they have achieved many successes, challenged oppressive practices at a local and global level and have developed outstanding entrepreneurial activities.

The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement’s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies.

Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact.

The book analyses the two decades of the brutal civil war of northern Uganda. The author modified Lederach’s peacebuilding framework to include peacemaking to bring out the argument that women and men make significant contributions to the peace processes and point out women’s position as top leadership actors.