Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is transnational feminist network of scholars, researchers and activists from the global South.

History

DAWN, based in Fiji, was founded in 1984.[1] The founding committee members were Neuma Aguiar (Brazil), Zubeida Ahmad (Pakistan), Peggy Antrobus (Barbados), Lourdes Arizpe (Mexico), Nirmala Banerjee (India), Carmen Barroso (Brazil), Ela Bhatt (India), Tone Bleie (Norway), Noeleen Heyzer (Malaysia), Hameeda Hossain (Bangladesh), Devaki Jain (India), Kumari Jayawardene (Sri Lanka), Isabel Larguia (Cuba), Ragnhild Lund (Norway), Geertje Lycklama (Netherlands), Lucille Mair (Jamaica), Katharine McKee (United States), Fatima Mernissi (Morocco), Achola Pala Okeyo (Kenya), Marie-Angelique Savane (Senegal), Gita Sen (India), and Claire Slatter (Fiji).[2]

DAWN economists Gita Sen and Caren Grown presented a platform for a feminist economics at the 1985 World Conference on Women in Nairobi.[3] The ideas which circulated there were later published as a book, Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions.[2]

Peggy Antrobus served as general coordinator of DAWN from 1991 to 1996.[4]

References

  1. Atrobus, Peggy; Wendy Harcourt (2015). "DAWN, the Third World Feminist Network: Upturning Hierarchies". In Rawwida Baksh-Soodeen (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements. Oxford University Press. pp. 159–187. ISBN 978-0-19-994349-4.
  2. Gita Sen and Caren Grown, Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1987. Accessed 10 May 2020.
  3. Janet Halley; Prabha Kotiswaran; Rachel Rebouché; Hila Shamir, eds. (2019). Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field. University of Minnesota Press. p. 400. ISBN 978-1-4529-5869-9.
  4. William E. Gibson (2012). Eco-Justice--The Unfinished Journey: The Unfinished Journey. SUNY Press. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-7914-8557-6.
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