TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mikula,Maja
TI  - Women, activism and social change
T2  - Routledge research in gender and society
SN  - 0415357381
AV  - HQ1236 .W632 2005
U1  - 305.4209 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Women
KW  - Political activity
KW  - History
KW  - Women political activists
KW  - Women social reformers
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Sex role in literature
KW  - Social change
KW  - Patriarchy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Patriarchy and resistance in Singapore; Stephanie Lawson --; 2; Bourgeois women and communist revolutionaries? : de-revolutionizing the Chinese women's suffrage movement; Louise Edwards --; 3; Activities of the Japanese Patriotic Ladies' Association (Aikoku Fujinkai); Keiko Morita --; 4; 'I spit on your stone' : national identity, women against rape and the cult of Anzac in Australia; Catriona Elder --; 5; Embrace or resist : women and collective identification in Croatia and former Yugoslavia since WWII; Maja Mikula --; 6; Grassroots women's activism in Russia, 1992-96 : surviving social change together?; Rebecca Kay --; 7; 'To struggle for freedom is our responsibility' : Tibetan nuns in the Chinese state; Susette Cooke --; 8; The militant nun as political activist and feminist in martial law Philippines; Mina Roces --; 9; 'Harem women seem the happiest to me' : novel women, fictions of domesticity and national development in India; Devleena Ghosh --; 10; 'Women, don't interfere with us; we are fighting for Poland' : polish mothers and transgressive others; Elzbieta H. Oleksy --; 11; Germany : myth and apologia in Christa Wolf's novel Medea : voices; Yixu Lu --; 12; A shadowy sequence : Chicana textual/sexual reinventions of Sor Juana; Paul Allatson
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