Women and Politics in Twentieth Century Africa and Asia
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Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Women |
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Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Women |
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Author | : Mary Ann Tétreault |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781570030161 |
The contributors use a variety of theoretical approaches to analyze how women as a class have experienced specific twentieth-century revolutions. They identify the issues that prompted women to participate in the struggles, the roles they played, the contributions they made, and their hopes for better lives for themselves as women in the post-revolutionary society.
Author | : Lynn Thomas |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2003-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520936647 |
In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance—and complex ramifications—of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. This innovative book enriches the study of gender, reproduction, sexuality, and African history by revealing how reproductive controversies challenged long-standing social hierarchies and contributed to the construction of new ones that continue to influence the fraught politics of abortion, birth control, female genital cutting, and HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Author | : United Nations Office at Vienna |
Publisher | : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 1992-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004635785 |
Author | : Iris Berger |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521517079 |
Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.
Author | : Elise Boulding |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Monograph on the economic and social role of women, with emphasis on women's potential contribution to global economic development and future social change - covers development policy issues in improving women's social participation, particularly in rural areas and subsistence farming sectors of developing countries, and includes the role of UN and role of women's interest groups in promoting change. Maps, references and statistical tables.
Author | : G. Arunima |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2021-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030795802 |
This book addresses emancipatory narratives from two main sites in the colonial world, the Indian and southern African subcontinents. Exploring how love and revolution interrelate, this volume is unique in drawing on theories of affect to interrogate histories of the political, thus linking love and revolution together. The chapters engage with the affinities of those who live with their colonial pasts: crises of expectations, colonial national convulsions, memories of anti-colonial solidarity, even shared radical libraries. It calls attention to the specific and singular way in which notions of ‘love of the world’ were born in a precise moment of anti-colonial struggle: a love of the world for which one would offer one’s life, and for which there had been little precedent in the history of earlier revolutions. It thus offers new ways of understanding the shifts in global traditions of emancipation over two centuries.
Author | : Maria Bucur |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442257407 |
This innovative text explores the unprecedented changes in the realms of politics, demography, economics, culture, knowledge, and kinship that women have brought about in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Global in reach, the book provides a comparative analysis of developments worldwide to show both progress as well as new tensions and forms of inequality that have emerged out of women’s entry into politics, wage employment, education, and the production of culture. Beginning with suffrage and moving to participation in international movements—such as anti-war, labor, and environmental rights activism—Maria Bucur explores how women have transformed the operation of states and international institutions. She focuses on the radical demographic shifts since 1900 through the prism of changing practices in women’s sexuality, from birth control practices to education. Examining the continuing economic gender gap around the world, Bucur highlights ways women have been both beneficiaries of new economic opportunities and participants in developing new forms of inequality. Considering the remarkable achievements of women in the areas of knowledge making and cultural production, the author shifts her gaze toward the future and what these changes mean in terms of gender norms and evolving kinship relations. She thus presents a new perspective on contemporary world history, centered on how women have become both the subjects and objects of seismic shifts in the political, social, and economic structures of societies across the globe.
Author | : Terence Ranger |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 1993-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349123420 |
This book takes as its theme the ways in which governments legitimate their rule, both to themselves and to their subjects. Its introduction explores legitimacy and pre-colonial states, but the three sections of the book deal with colonial legitimacy, the question of legitimation in the transition from colonialism to majority rule, and the contemporary debate about accountability.
Author | : Doris Chang |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252090810 |
This book is the first in English to consider women's movements and feminist discourses in twentieth-century Taiwan. Doris T. Chang examines the way in which Taiwanese women in the twentieth century selectively appropriated Western feminist theories to meet their needs in a modernizing Confucian culture. She illustrates the rise and fall of women's movements against the historical backdrop of the island's contested national identities, first vis-à-vis imperial Japan (1895-1945) and later with postwar China (1945-2000). In particular, during periods of soft authoritarianism in the Japanese colonial era and late twentieth century, autonomous women's movements emerged and operated within the political perimeters set by the authoritarian regimes. Women strove to replace the "Good Wife, Wise Mother" ideal with an individualist feminism that meshed social, political, and economic gender equity with the prevailing Confucian family ideology. However, during periods of hard authoritarianism from the 1930s to the 1960s, the autonomous movements collapsed. The particular brand of Taiwanese feminism developed from numerous outside influences, including interactions among an East Asian sociopolitical milieu, various strands of Western feminism, and even Marxist-Leninist women's liberation programs in Soviet Russia. Chinese communism appears not to have played a significant role, due to the Chinese Nationalists' restriction of communication with the mainland during their rule on post-World War II Taiwan. Notably, this study compares the perspectives of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, whose husband led as the president of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1949 to 1975, and Hsiu-lien Annette Lu, Taiwan's vice president from 2000 to 2008. Delving into period sources such as the highly influential feminist monthly magazine Awakening as well as interviews with feminist leaders, Chang provides a comprehensive historical and cross-cultural analysis of the struggle for gender equality in Taiwan.