Global Feminisms Since 1945

by Smith,Bonnie G.

• ISBN13: 9780415184908
• ISBN10: 0415184908
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Global Feminismsis an innovative and concise anthology considering the similarities and differences between feminisms in West and East, North and South, and highlighting class, racial, ethnic and imperial tensions and claims in the twentieth century. The contributors analyze the roots, development and, in some cases, the conclusions of feminisms and how they have interacted. From the European and American feminist movements to those in the ex- Soviet Union and women's rights and groups in South Asia,Global Feminismsexamines the key economic, technological, sexual, reproductive, ecological and political debates. Contributors:Margot Badron, Saba Bahar, Miriam Chung Yoon Louie, Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes, Mallika Dutt, Sara Evans, Alkarim Jivani, Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira, Sabine Lang, Vera Mackie, Zengie A.Mangaliso, Wilhemina Odul, Katherine O'Sullivan, Zoreh T. Sullivan, Linda Racioppi, Mary Ann Tetreault.

Table of Contents

Series editor's preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
Bonnie G. Smith
PART I Nation-building	11	(68)
Competing agenda: feminists, Islam, and the state in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Egypt	13	(32)
Margot Badran
Women and revolution in Vietnam	45	(20)
Mary Ann Tetreault
Gender and nation-building in South Africa	65	(14)
Zengie A. Mangaliso
PART II Sources of activism	79	(60)
Female consciousness or feminist consciousness? Women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil	81	(20)
Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes
The mother of warriors and her daughters: the women's movement in Kenya	101	(18)
Wilhelmina Oduol
Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira
Minjung feminism: Korean women's movement for gender and class liberation	119	(20)
Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
PART III Women's liberation	139	(64)
Decade of discovery: 'the personal is political'	141	(23)
Sara Evans
It's not unusual: gay and lesbian history in Britain	164	(16)
Alkarim Jivani
Feminist critiques of modern Japanese politics	180	(23)
Vera Mackie
PART IV New waves in the 1980s and 1990s	203	(111)
Organizing women before and after the fall: women's politics in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia	205	(30)
Linda Racioppi
Katherine O'Sullivan See
Eluding the feminist, overthrowing the Modern' Transformations in twentieth-century Iran	235	(30)
Zohreh T. Sullivan
Human rights are women's right: Amnesty International and the family	265	(25)
Saba Bahar
The NGO-ization of feminism: institutionalization and institution building within the German women's movements	290	(15)
Sabine Lang
Some reflections on United States women of color and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China	305	(9)
Mallika Dutt
Index	314