Women, activism, and social change

Throughout history, women have participated in and sometimes initiated rebellions to defend the welfare of their family, community, class, race or ethnic group.This volume presents original research on women's activism in Asia, Europe, Australia and Latin America. It explores how women have advanced social change and their influence on, and response to, existing transformations in society. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors examine women's activities and conditions in diverse social and political contexts, from revolutionary societies, to status quo societies, to societies in dec

1. Patriarchy and resistance in Singapore / Stephanie Lawson -- 2. Bourgeois women and communist revolutionaries? De-revolutionizing the Chinese women's suffrage movement / Louise Edwards -- 3. Activities of the Japanese Patriotic Ladies' Association (Aikoku Fujinkai) / Keiko Morita -- 4. 'I spit on your stone' : national identity, women against rape and the cult of Anzac in Australia / Catriona Elder -- 5. Embrace or resist : women and collective identification in Croatia and former Yugoslavia since WWII / Maja Mikula -- 6. Grassroots women's activism in Russia, 1992-96 : surviving social change together? / Rebecca Kay -- 7. 'To struggle for freedom is our responsibility' : Tibetan nuns in the Chinese state / Susette Cooke -- 8. The militant nun as political activist and feminist in martial law Philippines / Mina Roces -- 9. 'Harem women seem the happiest to me' : novel women, fictions of domesticity and national development in India / Devleena Ghosh -- 10. 'Women, don't interfere with us; we are fighting for Poland' : Polish mothers and transgressive others / Elzbieta H. Oleksy -- 11. Germany : myth and apologia in Christa Wolf's novel Media. Voices / Yixu Lu -- 12. A shadowy sequence : Chican textual/sexual reinventions of Sor Juana / Paul Allatson.