Voice is a key pathway for women to achieve greater citizenship, rights and
empowerment, collective action and influence.
Based on first hand interviews with feminist researchers and activists working
on voice in South Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America; the book produces
analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice in different
countries. These narratives depart from the existing debate on women's public
and political engagement in formal institutions and move towards an analysis of
feminist activism for building and sustaining constituencies through raising,
legitimizing women's voice under different contexts and the impact of these
strategies and processes on women's citizenship.
This unique book explores