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- Title
Les Rencontres internationales sur la santé des femmes: continuité et expression d'identités multiples.
- Authors
Estrada-Claudio, Sylvia
- Abstract
The International Women's Health Meeting (IWHM) has become one of the largest gatherings of women's health advocates, academics, funding institutions and other networks involved in women's health and reproductive rights. The first meeting was held in 1977 in Rome and the tenth in 2005 in New Delhi. This represents a 28-year process that has shaped and been shaped by the global feminist health movement. Interestingly, the IWHM is a non-institutionalized process. The central point of the article is that the organizing practices of the IWHM have allowed feminist activists engaged in it a large amount of flexibility and adaptability to political changes across time. This flexibility can be best traced to the deployment of various identities (national, regional, sexual, biological). The paper demonstrates how the deployment of these identities has allowed the IWHM to survive and flourish organizationally and remain at the cutting edge of the discourse on women's rights, especially those of sexual and reproductive health.
- Subjects
WOMEN'S health; CONVENTION organizers; SOCIAL conditions of women; WOMEN'S rights; FEMINISM; REPRODUCTIVE rights; REPRODUCTIVE health; CONFERENCES &; conventions; WOMEN in politics
- Publication
Lien Social et Politiques, 2007, Issue 58, p155
- ISSN
1204-3206
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/017558ar