Women, activism and social change /
edited by Maja Mikula.
- ix, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Routledge research in gender and society ; 11 .
- Routledge research in gender and society ; 11. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Patriarchy and resistance in Singapore / Bourgeois women and communist revolutionaries? : de-revolutionizing the Chinese women's suffrage movement / Activities of the Japanese Patriotic Ladies' Association (Aikoku Fujinkai) / 'I spit on your stone' : national identity, women against rape and the cult of Anzac in Australia / Embrace or resist : women and collective identification in Croatia and former Yugoslavia since WWII / Grassroots women's activism in Russia, 1992-96 : surviving social change together? / 'To struggle for freedom is our responsibility' : Tibetan nuns in the Chinese state / The militant nun as political activist and feminist in martial law Philippines / 'Harem women seem the happiest to me' : novel women, fictions of domesticity and national development in India / 'Women, don't interfere with us; we are fighting for Poland' : polish mothers and transgressive others / Germany : myth and apologia in Christa Wolf's novel Medea : voices / A shadowy sequence : Chicana textual/sexual reinventions of Sor Juana / Stephanie Lawson -- Louise Edwards -- Keiko Morita -- Catriona Elder -- Maja Mikula -- Rebecca Kay -- Susette Cooke -- Mina Roces -- Devleena Ghosh -- Elzbieta H. Oleksy -- Yixu Lu -- Paul Allatson. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
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Women--Political activity--History. Women political activists--History Women social reformers--History Women in literature Sex role in literature Social change. Patriarchy