As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions and networks. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the book looks at how feminists are engaged in a complex struggle for democratic power in a neoliberal age and at how resistance is integral to possibilities for change.
In making visible resistances to dominant economic and social policies, the book highlights how such struggles are both gendered and gendering bodies. The chapters explore struggles for healthy environments, sexual health and reproductive rights, access to abortion, an end to gender-based violence, the human rights of LGBTIQA persons, the recognition of indigenous territories and all peoples¿ rights to care, love and work freely. The book sets out the violence, hopes, contradictions and ways forward in these civic innovations, resistances and connections across the globe.

Introduction.- Section I The Politics of Place: Gender, movements and bodies.- 1. Politics of Place at the Women's School of Madrid: Experiences around Bodies and Territory.- 2. Reclaiming the right to become Other-Women in Other-places: The Politics of Place of The Ecologist Women of La Huizachera Cooperative, Mexico.- 3. Moments of Movements Intersection in India: Informing and Transforming Bodies in Movements.- 4. Contesting bodies in the constitutional debate over equal citizenship rights in Nepal.- 5. Embodying Change in Iran: Volunteering in Family Planning as a Practice of Justice.- 6. Neoliberal body politics: feminist resistance and the abortion law in Türkey.- 7. Transgendered bodies as subjects of feminism: a conversation on the inclusion of transpersons in the Nicaraguan feminist movement.- Section II Points of View on gender politics, rights and bodies in resistance.- 8.The Development Industry and the Co-optation of body politics.- 9. An Intergenerational trialogue around global body politics.- 10. Post-What? Some Reflections on global advocacy and its disconnects: The Cairo Legacy and the post-2015 agenda.- 11.Where are the Men? Reflections on manhood, masculinities and gender justice.- 12. Body Politics, Human Rights and Public Policies in Brazil: A conversation with Jacqueline Pitanguy.- 13. Some Thoughts on new epistemologies in Latin American Feminisms.- 14. Inquiring Bodies and Lines of Resistance: The Subject in Porn Research.- 15. An American's view of trans* emergence in Africa and feminist responses; Chloe Schwenke.-

Wendy Harcourt is Associate Professor in Critical Development and Feminist Studies at the International Institute of Social Sciences of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands. She joined the ISS in November 2011 after 20 years at the Society for International Development, Rome, Italy, as Editor of the journal Development and Director of Programmes. She has edited 10 books and won the FWSA prize in 2010 for her book Body Politics in Development.