Women, Activism and Social Change : Stretching Boundaries.

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 Juana -- Bibliography -- Index.

This volume presents original and state-of-the-art research on women's movements in Asia, Europe and Latin America, contrasting and comparing women's activities and conditions in diverse social and political contexts.

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