ISBN:
978-0-367-50476-2
,
978-0-367-50478-6
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 212 Seiten ;
,
24 cm.
Series Statement:
Global gender
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.4209172/4
Keywords:
Women's International Democratic Federation
;
Developing countries
;
Women's International Democratic Federation.
;
1900-1999
;
Geschichte 1950-1990
;
Women's rights / Developing countries / History / 20th century
;
Cold War
;
Women's rights
;
Frauenbewegung.
;
Ost-West-Konflikt.
;
Sowjetunion.
;
History
;
Frauenbewegung
;
Ost-West-Konflikt
;
Geschichte 1950-1990
Abstract:
"Yulia Gradskova is Associate Professor in History and works at the Department of History, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests include Soviet and post-Soviet social and gender history, decolonial perspective on Soviet politics on emancipation of "woman of the East" and gender equality. Gradskova is the author of Soviet Politics of Emancipation of Ethnic Minority Women. Natsionalka (Springer, 2018) and co-editor of several books, including Gendering Postsocialism. Old Legacies and New Hierarchies (Routledge 2018, with Ildiko Asztalos Morell); Gender Equality on a Grand Tour. Politics and Institutions - the Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia (Brill, 2017 - with E. Blomberg, Y. Waldemarson and A. Zvinkliene)"--
Description / Table of Contents:
A forgotten women's organization? The WIDF [Women's International Democratic Federation] , in between women's history and cold war studies -- The WIDF, the Soviet state, and Cold War battles -- Protecting peace, mothers, and children : WIDF's ideology and activities in its first decades -- Anti-colonialism, anti-racism and social rights -- The state socialist model of women's emancipation as an example to follow for thr "Whole World" -- Women from Asia, Africa, and Latin America make themselves visibile in the WIDF -- Activists from global south and the WIDF : a biographical perspective -- The WIDF on the eve of the IWY [International Women's Year] and during the UN decade for women
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