Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world to look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women's organizations, as political leaders, and in global forums such as the United Nations. The book is divided into three parts. Part one, brings together four essays about organized women's activism across borders. The chapters in part two focus on the variety of women's activism and explore women's activism in different national and political contexts....
Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world to look at how women have always found...
The first section on Gender, the Body, and Sexuality explores issues that have been of fundamental importance to womens and gender studies since the 1970s. The second section brings together work on women and war, as well as contributions that focus on media representation of women during times of war with special attention paid to the Second World War.
The Forum section in this volume brings together specialists in womens and gender studies from Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Serbia/former Yugoslavia and Hungary to...
