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



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Titolo: Women, activism, and social change / / edited by Maja Mikula Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
Disciplina: 305.42/09
Soggetto topico: Women - Political activity - History
Women political activists - History
Women social reformers - History
Women in literature
Sex role in literature
Social change
Patriarchy
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: MikulaMaja <1959->  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Women, activism, and social change  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-415-47983-5
1-136-78271-0
0-203-00337-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451782803321
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Serie: Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 11.