Representing writings from the North and South, challeging developpement covers movements from Latin American, Asia, Africa the USA , Turkey, Canada, Germany. This book is written to give grassroots community-based women's movements a voice and visibility.  In community-based movements of the 1980s and 1990s were charecterised by the growth of a vast number of organisations based in communities, such as women's groups, youth groups and famer's groups,at the village level, and the community level organisation in urbain areas. What distinguishes the movements of the 1990s is the vast numbers of women who are involved, the growing number of women's organisations at the community level, and the fact that these are not elite women, but grassroots women.

Representing writings from the North and South, challeging developpement covers movements from Latin American, Asia, Africa the USA , Turkey, Canada, Germany. This book is written to give grassroots community-based women's movements a voice and visibility.  In community-based movements of the 1980s and 1990s were charecterised by the growth of a vast number of organisations based in communities, such as women's groups, youth groups and famer's groups,at the village level, and the community level organisation in urbain areas. What distinguishes the movements of the 1990s is the vast numbers of women who are involved, the growing number of women's organisations at the community level, and the fact that these are not elite women, but grassroots women.