04088oam 2200781I 450 991077754050332120230207224708.01-136-78278-80-415-47983-51-136-78271-00-203-00337-310.4324/9780203003374 (CKB)1000000000459260(EBL)1924446(SSID)ssj0000273485(PQKBManifestationID)11195117(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273485(PQKBWorkID)10313313(PQKB)11611211(MiAaPQ)EBC1924446(Au-PeEL)EBL1924446(CaPaEBR)ebr11005880(CaONFJC)MIL691677(OCoLC)904407240(OCoLC)63109589(EXLCZ)99100000000045926020180706d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWomen, activism, and social change /edited by Maja MikulaLondon ;New York :Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,2005.1 online resource (288 p.)Routledge research in gender and society ;11Description based upon print version of record.1-322-60395-2 0-415-35738-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 WWII6 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. Voices12 A shadowy sequence: Chicana textual/sexual reinventions of Sor JuanaBibliography; IndexThroughout 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 decRoutledge research in gender and society ;11.WomenPolitical activityHistoryWomen political activistsHistoryWomen social reformersHistoryWomen in literatureSex role in literatureSocial changePatriarchyWomenPolitical activityHistory.Women political activistsHistory.Women social reformersHistory.Women in literature.Sex role in literature.Social change.Patriarchy.305.42/09Mikula Maja1959-1508616MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777540503321Women, activism, and social change3740023UNINA