Theorizing NGOs examines how the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has transformed the conditions of women's lives and of feminist organizing. Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal suggest that we can understand the proliferation of NGOs through a focus on the NGO as a unified form despite the enormous variation and diversity contained within that form. Theorizing NGOs brings together cutting-edge feminist research on NGOs from various perspectives and disciplines. Contributors locate NGOs within local and transnational configurations of power, interrogate the relationships of nongovernmental organizations to states and to privatization, and map the complex, ambiguous, and ultimately unstable synergies between feminisms and NGOs. While some of the contributors draw on personal experience with NGOs, others employ regional or national perspectives. Spanning a broad range of issues with which NGOs are engaged, from microcredit and domestic violence to democratization, this groundbreaking collection shows that NGOs are, themselves, fields of gendered struggles over power, resources, and status.
Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Victoria Bernal, LeeRay M. Costa, Inderpal Grewal, Laura Grünberg, Elissa Helms, Julie Hemment, Saida Hodžic, Lamia Karim, Sabine Lang, Lauren Leve, Kathleen O'Reilly, Aradhana Sharma
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction - The NGO Form: Feminist Struggles, States, and Neoliberalism - Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal
- Part I. NGOs Beyond Success or Failure
- Chapter 1. The Movementization of NGOs? Women’s Organizing in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina - Elissa Helms
- Chapter 2. Failed Development and Rural Revolution in Nepal: Rethinking Subaltern Consciousness and Women’s Empowerment - Lauren Leve
- Chapter 3. The State and Women’s Empowerment in India: Paradoxes and Politics - Aradhana Sharma
- Part II. Postcolonial Neoliberalisms and the NGO Form
- Chapter 4. Global Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in Russia - Julie Hemment
- Chapter 5. Resolving a Gendered Paradox: Women’s Participation and the NGO Boom in North India - Kathleen O’Reilly
- Chapter 6. Power and Difference in Thai Women’s NGO Activism - LeeRay M. Costa
- Chapter 7. Demystifying Microcredit: The Grameen Bank, NGOs, and Neoliberalism in Bangladesh - Lamia Karim
- Part III. Feminist Social Movements and NGOs
- Chapter 8. Feminist Bastards: Toward a Posthumanist Critique of NGOization - Saida Hodžic
- Chapter 9. Lived Feminism(s) in Postcommunist Romania - Laura Grünberg
- Chapter 10. Women’s Advocacy Networks: The European Union, Women’s NGOs, and the Velvet Triangle - Sabine Lang
- Chapter 11. Beyond NGOization? : Reflections from Latin America - Sonia E. Alvarez
- Conclusion - Feminisms and the NGO Form - Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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