Global feminisms since 1945 : a survey of issues and controversies /

"Global Feminisms Since 1945 is an innovative historical introduction to the issues of contemporary feminism, with a truly global perspective. It is a concise anthology considering the similarities and differences between feminisms in West and East, North and South, and highlighting class, raci...

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Other Authors: Smith, Bonnie G., 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series:Rewriting histories.
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Table of Contents:
  • Competing agenda : feminists, Islam, and the state in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Egypt / Margot Badran
  • Women and revolution in Vietnam / Mary Ann Tetreault
  • Gender and nation-building in South Africa / Zengie A. Mangaliso
  • Female consciousness or feminist consciousness? Women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil / Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes
  • The mother of warriors and her daughters : the women's movement in Kenya / Wilhelmina Oduol and Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira
  • Minjung feminism : Korean women's movement for gender and class liberation / Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
  • Decade of discovery : 'the personal is political' / Sara Evans
  • It's not unusual : gay and lesbian history in Britain / Alkarim Jivani
  • Feminist critiques of modern Japanese politics / Vera Mackie
  • Organizing women before and after the fall : women's politics in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia / Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See
  • Eluding the feminist, overthrowing the modern? Transformations in twentieth-century Iran / Zohreh T. Sullivan
  • Human rights are women's right : amnesty international and the family / Saba Bahar
  • The NGO-ization of feminism institutionalization and institution building within the German women's movements / Sabine Lang
  • Some reflections on United States women of color and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China / Mallika Dutt.