TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Bonnie G. TI - Global feminisms since 1945: a survey of issues and controversies T2 - Re-writing histories SN - 0415184916 AV - HQ1154. G56 2000 U1 - 305.42 PY - 2000/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Feminism KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Women's rights KW - Women KW - Political activity N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Series editor's preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1; Competing agenda: feminists, Islam, and the state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt --; 2; Women and revolution in Vietnam --; 3; Gender and nation-building in South Africa --; 4; Female consciousness or feminist consciousness? Women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil --; 5; The mother of warriors and her daughters: the women's movement in Kenya --; 6; Minjung feminism: Korean women's movement for gender and class liberation --; 7; Decade of discovery: 'the personal political' --; 8; It's not unusual: gay and lesbian history in Britain --; 9; Feminist critiques of modern Japanese politics --; 10; Organizing women before and after the fall: women's politics in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia --; 11; Eluding the feminist, overthrowing the modern? Transformations in twentieth-century Iran --; 12; Human rights are women's right: Amnesty International and the family --; 13; The NGO-ization of feminism: institutionalization and institution buiilding within the German women's movements --; 14; Some reflections on United States women of color and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China --; Index ER -