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1 online resource (vi, 335 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women's activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings of historical feminism. It is no longer possible to imagine that feminism has ever fostered an unproblematic sisterhood among women blind to race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality and citizenship status. The chapters in this collection modify the "wave" metaphor in some cases and in others re-periodize it. By studying individual movements, they collectively address several themes that advance our understandings of the history of feminism, such as the rejection of "hegemonic" feminism by marginalized feminist groups, transnational linkages among women's organizations, transnational flows of ideas and transnational migration. By analyzing practical activism, the chapters in this volume produce new ways of theorizing feminism and new historical perspectives about the activist locations from which feminist politics emerged. Including histories of feminisms in the United States, Canada, South Africa, India, France, Russia, Japan, Korea, Poland and Chile, Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism provides a truly global re-appraisal of women's movements in the late 20th century.-- Provided by Publisher. |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
| Contents |
Introduction / Barbara Molony and Jennifer Nelson -- Redefining Feminism. Hunger doesn't take a vacation : the food activism of United Bronx parents / Lana Dee Povitz -- "Sex-ins, college style" : Black feminism and sexual politics in the student YWCA, 1968-80 / April Haynes -- Contemporary feminisms and the secularism controversies : a model of emancipation / Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz (translated by Sandrine Sanos) -- SEWA's feminism / Eileen Boris -- Feminist dissidents in the "motherland of women's liberation" : shattering Soviet myths and memory / Rochelle Ruthchild -- Reconsidering "Second Wave" Feminist Genealogies. On the "F"- word as insult and on feminism as political practice : women's mobilization for rights in Chile / Jadigwa E. Pieper Mooney -- Beyond the "development" paradigm : state socialist women's activism, transnationalism, and the "long Sixties" / Magdalena Grabowska -- "Making a point by choice" : maternal imperialism, second wave feminism, and transnational epistemologies / Priya Jha -- Shared history and the responsibility for justice : the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan / Seung-kyung Kim and Na-Young Lee -- Visions for the suburban city in the age of decolonization : Chicana activism in the Silicon Valley, 1965-75 / Jeannette Alden Estruth -- Dalit feminism at home and in the world : the conceptual work of "difference" and "similarity' in national and transnational activism / Purvi Mehta -- One thousand Wednesdays : transnational activism from Seoul to Glendale / Vera Mackie -- Contesting the nation(s) : Haitian and Mohawk women's activism in Montreal / Amanda Ricci -- If not feminism, then what? : Women's work in the African National Congress in exile / Rachel Sandwell. |
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Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
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Feminism -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Second-wave feminism.
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Women -- Political activity -- History.
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Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000.
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Gender studies: women.
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General & world history.
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Feminism & feminist theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
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Second-wave feminism. (OCoLC)fst01745223
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Women -- Political activity.
(OCoLC)fst01734136
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Electronic books.
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Cross-cultural studies. (OCoLC)fst01423769
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Molony, Barbara, editor.
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Nelson, Jennifer, 1967- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Women's activism and 'second wave' feminism. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 9781474250511 (DLC) 2016034181 (OCoLC)960741761 |
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9781474250528 (electronic book) |
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9781474250535 (pdf) |
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9781474250511 (electronic book) |
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1474250513 (electronic book) |
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