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Wood, Nancy. "Another World Is Possible: The World Social Forum and the Feminization of an Alternative World" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Mar 17, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p72914_index.html>

Wood, N. L. , 2004-03-17 "Another World Is Possible: The World Social Forum and the Feminization of an Alternative World" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p72914_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Patriarchal structures have existed for nearly 6,000 years, with the current dominant and states-supported multinational corporate capitalist structure (globalization from above - GFA) being the latest stage of patriarchy. This most recent form of patriarchy subsumes all countries into a global class system that is characterized by asymmetrical development, environmental and ecological destruction and enormous inequalities between the haves and have-nots of the world. Women, children and the very poor are particularly brutalized by this system. It is a system maintained by and dependent upon ever-increasing forms of structural and direct violence, particularly highly technologized and militarized violence. In the midst of this annihilationist historical moment is the development of a global peace movement � an expression of globalization from below (GFB). During the few months preceding the US-led illegal invasion/war in Iraq of March 2003, a worldwide anti-war/peace movement rapidly surfaced, demanding that the United Nations Weapons Inspections be allowed to continue and that no war on Iraq take place without the support of the United Nations Security Council. Millions of people around the world took to the streets to oppose this U.S.-led war on Iraq. Even in countries where political elites supported the U.S. preemptive strike war, (e.g. United Kingdom and Spain), millions of people in civil society opposed their governments' positions by marching in protests, holding vigils and rallies, and e-mailing petitions of dissent across the globe. This global peace movement phenomenon reflects a growing global civil society which adopts as its core such values as cooperation, conciliatoriness, compassion, interdependence, fairness, inclusion, reciprocity and egalitarianism � qualities and characteristics most often associated with the feminine. Using the recent global peace movement as a case study, this work explores a major dichotomy that appears to be taking place in the world today � the masculine dominant GFA counter positioned by an evolving global alternative (GFB) rooted in the feminine. Thus, the research by Nancy Lee Wood links the rapid rise of popular resistance to the Iraqi invasion to the growth of a global civil society, rooted in feminine values, converging across national borders. Through the NGO Forums convened alongside the official intergovernmental, U.N. sponsored world conferences and at the World Social Forums convened in Brazil over the past three years, this global civil society has begun to evolve a vision of democratic, self-governance more radical and more feminine-based than can be accommodated by contemporary neo-liberal structures.

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