Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World - Couverture souple

Jayawardena, Kumari

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0862322650 ISBN 13 : 9780862322656

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

Book by Jayawardena Kumari

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A founding text of transnational feminism

For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. In this engaging and well-researched survey, Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the specific struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against poverty and inequality.

Journalist and human rights activist Rafia Zakaria’s foreword to this new edition is an impassioned letter in two parts: the first to Western feminists; the second to feminists in the Global South, entreating them to use this “compendium of female courage” as a bridge between women of different nations.

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World was chosen as one of the top twenty Feminist Classics of this Wave, 1970–1990, by Ms. magazine, and won the Feminist Fortnight Award in the UK.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

For twenty-five years, Kumari Jayawardena’s text has been an essential primer on the history of women’s movements in Asia and the middle East—from Egypt, Turkey and Iran, to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, Korea and the Philip-pines—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jayawardena presents a feminism that didn’t originate as an ideology of the West to be adopted by women in the Third World, but that instead erupted from the specific needs and struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against poverty and inequality. This readable and well-researched survey highlights the role of women in the national liberation and revolutionary movements of these countries.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0862322650
• ISBN 13: 9780862322656
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288