| Description |
xii, 319 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Re-writing histories
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Competing agenda : feminists, Islam, and the state in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Egypt / Margot Badran -- Women and revolution in Vietnam / Mary Ann Tetreault -- Gender and nation-building in South Africa / Zengie A. Mangaliso -- Female consciousness or feminist consciousness? Women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil / Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes -- Mother of warriors and her daughters : the women's movement in Kenya / Wilhelmina Oduol and Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira -- Minjung feminism : Korean women's movement for gender and class liberation / Miriam Ching Yoon Louie -- Decade of discovery : "the personal is political" / Sara Evans -- It's not unusual : gay and lesbian history in Britain / Alkarim Jivani -- Feminist critiques of modern Japanese politics / Vera Mackie -- Organizing women before and after the fall : women's politics in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia / Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See -- Eluding the feminist, overthrowing the modern? Transformations in twentieth-century Iran / Zohreh T. Sullivan -- Human rights are women's right : amnesty international and the family / Saba Bahar -- NGO-ization of feminism institutionalization and institution building within the German women's movements / 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 / Mallika Dutt. |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Women's rights -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Women in politics -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Bonnie G., 1940-
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| ISBN |
0415184908 (hb) |
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0415184916 (pb) |
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