Introduction / Amrita Basu -- Africa. South African feminisms: a coming of age? / Elaine Salo ; Ramagwana Rakajeka: opportunities and challenges of the Zimbabwean women's movement / Shereen Essof -- Asia. The women's movement in Pakistan: challenges and achievements / Farida Shaheed ; Feminist deliberative politics in India / Kalpana Kannabiran ; The Chinese women's movement in the context of globalization / Naihua Zhang, Ping-Chun Hsiung -- Europe. Polish feminism between the local and the global: a task of translation / Elzbieta Matynia ; Russian women's activism: two steps forward, one step back / Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom -- Latin America. Contemporary feminisms in Brazil: achievements, shortcomings, and challenges / Cecilia M.B. Sardenberg, Ana Alice Alcantara Costa ; Seeking rights from the Left: gender and sexuality in Latin America / Elisabeth Jay Friedman ; Toward a culturally situated women's rights agenda: reflections from Mexico / Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo -- The Middle East. The demobilization of a Palestinian women's movement: from empowered active militants to powerless and stateless "citizens" / Islah Jad ; The women's movement and feminism in Iran: a glocal perspective / Nayereh Tohidi -- The United States. Intersecting oppressions: rethinking women's movements in the United States / Julie Ajinkya.