ISBN:
9780415357388
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (288 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Gender and Society Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version WOMEN, ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE : Stretching Boundaries
DDC:
305.42/09
Keywords:
Women political activists - History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Throughout history, women have participated in and sometimes initiated rebellions to defend the welfare of their family, community, class, race or ethnic group.This volume presents original research on women's activism in Asia, Europe, Australia and Latin America. It explores how women have advanced social change and their influence on, and response to, existing transformations in society. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors examine women's activities and conditions in diverse social and political contexts, from revolutionary societies, to status quo societies, to societies in dec
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Patriarchy and resistance in Singapore; 2 Bourgeois women and communist revolutionaries? De-revolutionizing the Chinese women's suffrage movement; 3 Activities of the Japanese Patriotic Ladies' Association (Aikoku Fujinkai); 4 'I spit on your stone': national identity, Women Against Rape and the cult of Anzac in Australia; 5 Embrace or resist: women and collective identification in Croatia and former Yugoslavia since WWII
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Grassroots women's activism in Russia, 1992-96: surviving social change together?7 'To struggle for freedom is our responsibility': Tibetan nuns in the Chinese state; 8 The militant nun as political activist and feminist in martial law Philippines; 9 'Harem women seem the happiest to me': novel women, fictions of domesticity and national development in India; 10 'Women, don't interfere with us; we are fighting for Poland': Polish mothers and transgressive others; 11 Germany: myth and apologia in Christa Wolf's novel Medea. Voices
Description / Table of Contents:
12 A shadowy sequence: Chicana textual/sexual reinventions of Sor JuanaBibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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