The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists Around the World

ISBN-13: 9783031131264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 702 str.

Francisca de Haan

Opis

This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of activism, political strategies and transnational networks. Comprising twenty-five chapters, based on new and primary research, the book presents the lives of self-identified communist women from a truly international perspective and outlines their struggles against fascism and colonialism, and for women’s emancipation and national liberation. By using the lens of transnational political biography, the chapters capture the broader picture of these women’s lives, unpacking the links between the so-called public and private, the power structures and inequalities of their societies, the formal networks and politics in which they were involved, and the informal connections and friendships that supported their activism both at the national and international level. Challenging androcentric and Eurocentric narratives about communism, this Handbook reveals the active and significant roles of women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century communist movements and regimes, and highlights the importance of communist women in shaping the agenda for women’s rights worldwide.

Spis treści

1.   Introduction: Towards a Global History of Communist Women

Francisca de Haan

 

Part 1: Global Foremothers

 

2. Clara Zetkin (1857–1933): A Rebel Building the Socialist and Communist International Women's Movements

Florence Hervé

 

3. Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952): Communism as the Only Way Towards Women’s Liberation

Appendix: Brief Reflections on Archival Sources, Scholarly Biographies, and Kollontai Fan Fiction

Natalia Novikova and Kristen Ghodsee

 

4. A Right to be Radical: Claudia Jones (1915–1964) and the “Super-Exploitation of the Black Woman"

Carole Boyce Davies

 

 

Part 2: Europe

 

5. Helen Crawfurd (1877–1954): Scottish Suffragette and International Communist

Kiera Wilkins

 

6. Ana Pauker (1893–1960): The Infamous Romanian Woman Communist Leader

Stefan Bosomitu and Luciana Jinga

 

7. Dolores Ibárruri, Pasionaria (1895–1989): Communist Woman of Steel, Global Icon

Mercedes Yusta Rodrigo

 

8. Teresa Noce (1900–1980): A Communist “Professional Revolutionary” in Twentieth-Century Italy

Eloisa Betti and Debora Migliucci

 

9. Edwarda Orłowska (1906–1977): A Story of Communist Activism in Poland Told in Words and Silences

Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz

 

10. Nina Vasilievna Popova (1908–1994): “Woman in the Land of Socialism”

Alexandra Talaver

 

 

Part 3: Asia

 

11. Deng Yingchao (1904–1992): A Feminist Leader in the Chinese Communist Party

Wang Zheng

 

12. Pak Chŏng-ae: From Red Labor Unions to the Korean Democratic Women’s Union

Suzy Kim

 

13.  Iijima Aiko (1932–2005): A Feminist’s Fight Against Discrimination in Japan

Akiko Takenaka

 

14. Nguyễn Thị Bình (b. 1927): “The Flower and Fire of the Revolution”

              An Thuy Nguyen

15. Umi Sardjono (1923–2011) and the Quest to Build a New Society for Indonesian Women

              Katharine McGregor and Ruth Indiah Rahayu

 

16.  Behice Boran (1910–1987): A Committed Communist Woman in Cold War Turkey

Sercan Çınar

 

 

Part 4: Africa and the Middle East

 

17. Naziha al-Dulaimi (1923–2007) and the Anticolonial Struggle in Iraq

Noga Efrati

 

18. “Not Only the Country’s Independence, Mine Too!” Arlette Bourgel, an Algerian Jewish Communist (b. 1928)

Pierre-Jean Le Foll-Luciani

 

19.  Aoua Keita (1912–1980): Anti-Colonial Activist, Nationalist Politician, and Feminist in Mali (West Africa)

Pascale Barthélémy and Ophélie Rillon

 

 

 

Part 5: Oceania

 

20. “A Key Person Internationally”: Freda Brown (1919–2009), Australian Activist

              Lisa Milner

 

21. Dancing for the Revolution: Rona Bailey, New Zealand Artist Activist (1914–2005)

Cybèle Locke

 

 

Part 6: The Americas

 

22. Jeanne Corbin (1906–1944): A Canadian Communist Militant in a Man’s World

              Andrée Lévesque

 

23. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964): Mortal Enemy of Capitalism

Lara Vapnek

 

24. Gachita Amador (1891–1961), Between Two Loves: Communist Action and Guignol Theater

Verónica Oikión Solano

 

25. Vilma Espín (1930–2007): Forging a New Woman Within the Cuban Revolution

Ailynn Torres Santana and Michelle Chase

 

26. “When My Life Goes Out ...” Biography of the Argentinian Communist Activist Fanny Edelman (1911–2011)

Adriana Valobra and Natalia Casola

O autorze

Francisca de Haan is Emerita Professor of Gender Studies and History at the Central European University in Vienna, Austria, and Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Her research interests center on transnational women’s history and gender history, histories of inter/transnational women’s movements, socialist and communist women’s political activism, women’s work and women’s archives.