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The Cosmopolitan Future: A Feminist Approach

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  • Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui

    (Department of Behavioral Sciences, The Academic College of Management, 7 Yitzhak Rabin Bld, Rishon LeZion 75190, Israel)

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This study questions the “clash of civilizations” thesis. Referring to the cosmopolitanization process as defined by Beck and Sznaider (2010), I analyze the cosmopolitanization of feminism, that is, the gradual recognition of “the others’ others”, the women, through the evolution of their political rights—the right to elect and be elected—at a global level. In this context, the descriptive representation of women, their substantive representation, and their voices within civil society in the North and the South highlight the fact that feminism is undergoing a process of cosmopolitanization, albeit in a slow and sporadic way. I present this argument from a postcolonial feminist perspective and base my research on NGOs’ data and on data provided by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN-Women. First, I analyze the cosmpolitanization process as applied to feminism. Then, following Beck and Sznaider (2010), I describe how this process is articulated ‘from above’ (top-down cosmopolitanization), referring to electoral data from around the world and to international law. Further, I relate to the cosmopolitanization of feminism ‘from below’, referring to feminist theories, cyberfeminism and the global civil/feminist society. In conclusion, I discuss the common future of feminism and cosmopolitanism.

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  • Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui, 2016. "The Cosmopolitan Future: A Feminist Approach," Laws, MDPI, vol. 5(3), pages 1-14, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlawss:v:5:y:2016:i:3:p:34-:d:76292
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    1. Dzodzi Tsikata, 2009. "Women's Organizing in Ghana since the 1990s: From individual organizations to three coalitions," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 52(2), pages 185-192, June.
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