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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451782803321

Titolo

Women, activism, and social change / / edited by Maja Mikula

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2005

ISBN

0-415-47983-5

1-136-78271-0

0-203-00337-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 11

Altri autori (Persone)

MikulaMaja <1959->

Disciplina

305.42/09

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - History

Women political activists - History

Women social reformers - History

Women in literature

Sex role in literature

Social change

Patriarchy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Patriarchy and resistance in Singapore; 2 Bourgeois women and communist revolutionaries? De-revolutionizing the Chinese women's suffrage movement; 3 Activities of the Japanese Patriotic Ladies' Association (Aikoku Fujinkai); 4 'I spit on your stone': national identity, Women Against Rape and the cult of Anzac in Australia; 5 Embrace or resist: women and collective identification in Croatia and former Yugoslavia since WWII

6 Grassroots women's activism in Russia, 1992-96: surviving social change together?7 'To struggle for freedom is our responsibility': Tibetan nuns in the Chinese state; 8 The militant nun as political activist and feminist in martial law Philippines; 9 'Harem women seem the happiest to me': novel women, fictions of domesticity and national development in India; 10 'Women, don't interfere with us;  we are



fighting for Poland': Polish mothers and transgressive others; 11 Germany: myth and apologia in Christa Wolf's novel Medea. Voices

12 A shadowy sequence: Chicana textual/sexual reinventions of Sor JuanaBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Throughout history, women have participated in and sometimes initiated rebellions to defend the welfare of their family, community, class, race or ethnic group.This volume presents original research on women's activism in Asia, Europe, Australia and Latin America. It explores how women have advanced social change and their influence on, and response to, existing transformations in society. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors examine women's activities and conditions in diverse social and political contexts, from revolutionary societies, to status quo societies, to societies in dec