Global feminisms since 1945 : a survey of issues and controversies /
Global feminisms since 1945 : a survey of issues and controversies /
Global feminisms since nineteen forty five
edited by Bonnie G. Smith.
- xii, 319 pages ; 24 cm.
- Re-writing histories .
- Rewriting histories. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Competing agenda: feminists, Islam, and the state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt -- Women and revolution in Vietnam -- Gender and nation-building in South Africa -- Female consciousness or feminist consciousness? Women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil -- The mother of warriors and her daughters: the women's movement in Kenya -- Minjung feminism: Korean women's movement for gender and class liberation -- Decade of discovery: 'the personal political' -- It's not unusual: gay and lesbian history in Britain -- Feminist critiques of modern Japanese politics -- Organizing women before and after the fall: women's politics in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia -- Eluding the feminist, overthrowing the modern? Transformations in twentieth-century Iran -- Human rights are women's right: Amnesty International and the family -- The NGO-ization of feminism: institutionalization and institution buiilding within the German women's movements -- Some reflections on United States women of color and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
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99089441
Feminism--Cross-cultural studies
Women's rights--Cross-cultural studies
Women--Political activity--Cross-cultural studies
HQ1154. / G56 2000
305.42
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Competing agenda: feminists, Islam, and the state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt -- Women and revolution in Vietnam -- Gender and nation-building in South Africa -- Female consciousness or feminist consciousness? Women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil -- The mother of warriors and her daughters: the women's movement in Kenya -- Minjung feminism: Korean women's movement for gender and class liberation -- Decade of discovery: 'the personal political' -- It's not unusual: gay and lesbian history in Britain -- Feminist critiques of modern Japanese politics -- Organizing women before and after the fall: women's politics in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia -- Eluding the feminist, overthrowing the modern? Transformations in twentieth-century Iran -- Human rights are women's right: Amnesty International and the family -- The NGO-ization of feminism: institutionalization and institution buiilding within the German women's movements -- Some reflections on United States women of color and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
0415184916 9780415184915 0415184908 9780415184908
99089441
Feminism--Cross-cultural studies
Women's rights--Cross-cultural studies
Women--Political activity--Cross-cultural studies
HQ1154. / G56 2000
305.42