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Abstract: The principle objective of this paper is to present the results of a literature review over impact of Globalization on women’s movements. Traditionalism & patriarchal characteristic of conservative societies and restrictive gender policies of Islamic countries are the main obstacles to feminism. This paper evaluates local, national and global feminism developments and responses to them or as Eschle 2001: says to “Feminist interventions that affect the parameters and direction of globalization processes “. Current finding in this literature shows that globalization process increases women’s consciousness on many eras especially on gender related issues and their interest in other nations’ feministic struggles and achievements. Global Media enables them to communicate their Ideas, values, believes, feministic goals. It also empowers women to evaluate their situations by compressing & contrasting it with other county’s cultural values and norms. Globalization made women to realize that, despite having different ethical, religious, linguistic and cultural background they share similar interests. These new finding compelled activists to find common grounds to evaluate their shared concerns and objectives. The study of women’s movement is incomplete without taking global factors in to account. This paper reviews briefly the interplay between local and global factors in shaping the course of women's movements and feminism in particularly conservative nations like as Saudi- Arabia. These countries are threatened by the impact of globalization on their ardent pious Muslim women loyal to Islamism and the ways it shapes public gender views and men’s traditional perceptions of women. NGO’s have been playing great role in promoting feministic ideals. Despite being threatened by anti-feminist groups, they continued working on programs aimed to increase women’s resistance to discrimination and bias behaviors of male authorities. This paper shoes that, feminism is not just western concept and Islamic societies comprised of non-Arab nations clam that, Islamic feminism is competitive to secular feminism. However, Islamic Family Protection Laws based on Sharia is unlikely to be convinced of this claim. There have been a number of earlier competitive studies on this topic, which include highly recognized stimulating books and article such as, Jaggar, “Globalizing Feminist Ethics,”1998. Catherine Eschle, “Global democracy, Social movements, and Feminism,” 2001. Eisenstein, Zillah. "Women's Publics and the Search for New Democracies. Nayereh Tohidi. "Introduction." Globalization, Gender, and Religion: a book by Shirin Ahmadniya ‘Yek Didgahe Jamea Shenasi’ ( A Societal Perspective) ( In Parisian ). To write an article on these kinds of topics is not difficult for someone like me, who live in Iran. All you need to observe and document what you see. That is the first-hand information which I used to right this essey. In conclusion, I propose a future research agenda to study how women of the undemocratic nations and Islamic countries could benefit from impact of globalization and Social Media help to reinvent and improve the way they pursue their feministic objectives.
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