[PDF] Women And Politics In Twentieth Century Africa And Asia eBook

Author : Lynn Thomas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2003-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0520936647

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In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance—and complex ramifications—of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. This innovative book enriches the study of gender, reproduction, sexuality, and African history by revealing how reproductive controversies challenged long-standing social hierarchies and contributed to the construction of new ones that continue to influence the fraught politics of abortion, birth control, female genital cutting, and HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Author : Mary Ann Tétreault
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9781570030161

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The contributors use a variety of theoretical approaches to analyze how women as a class have experienced specific twentieth-century revolutions. They identify the issues that prompted women to participate in the struggles, the roles they played, the contributions they made, and their hopes for better lives for themselves as women in the post-revolutionary society.

Author : Iris Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521517079

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Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.

Author : Elise Boulding
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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Monograph on the economic and social role of women, with emphasis on women's potential contribution to global economic development and future social change - covers development policy issues in improving women's social participation, particularly in rural areas and subsistence farming sectors of developing countries, and includes the role of UN and role of women's interest groups in promoting change. Maps, references and statistical tables.

Author : G. Arunima
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 3030795802

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This book addresses emancipatory narratives from two main sites in the colonial world, the Indian and southern African subcontinents. Exploring how love and revolution interrelate, this volume is unique in drawing on theories of affect to interrogate histories of the political, thus linking love and revolution together. The chapters engage with the affinities of those who live with their colonial pasts: crises of expectations, colonial national convulsions, memories of anti-colonial solidarity, even shared radical libraries. It calls attention to the specific and singular way in which notions of ‘love of the world’ were born in a precise moment of anti-colonial struggle: a love of the world for which one would offer one’s life, and for which there had been little precedent in the history of earlier revolutions. It thus offers new ways of understanding the shifts in global traditions of emancipation over two centuries.

Author : Maria Bucur
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1442257407

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This innovative text explores the unprecedented changes in the realms of politics, demography, economics, culture, knowledge, and kinship that women have brought about in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Global in reach, the book provides a comparative analysis of developments worldwide to show both progress as well as new tensions and forms of inequality that have emerged out of women’s entry into politics, wage employment, education, and the production of culture. Beginning with suffrage and moving to participation in international movements—such as anti-war, labor, and environmental rights activism—Maria Bucur explores how women have transformed the operation of states and international institutions. She focuses on the radical demographic shifts since 1900 through the prism of changing practices in women’s sexuality, from birth control practices to education. Examining the continuing economic gender gap around the world, Bucur highlights ways women have been both beneficiaries of new economic opportunities and participants in developing new forms of inequality. Considering the remarkable achievements of women in the areas of knowledge making and cultural production, the author shifts her gaze toward the future and what these changes mean in terms of gender norms and evolving kinship relations. She thus presents a new perspective on contemporary world history, centered on how women have become both the subjects and objects of seismic shifts in the political, social, and economic structures of societies across the globe.

Author : Terence Ranger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 1993-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1349123420

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This book takes as its theme the ways in which governments legitimate their rule, both to themselves and to their subjects. Its introduction explores legitimacy and pre-colonial states, but the three sections of the book deal with colonial legitimacy, the question of legitimation in the transition from colonialism to majority rule, and the contemporary debate about accountability.

Author : Stephan F. Miescher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1119052203

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Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges presents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings. Draws on original research on gender and empire in relation to labour, commodities, fashion, politics, mobility, and visuality Includes coverage of gender issues from countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia between the eighteenth to twentieth centuries Highlights a range of transnational and transregional connections across the globe Features innovative gender analyses of the circulation of people, ideas, and cultural practices