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Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

Author : Jayawardena,Kumari

Publisher: Social Scientists Association

Place of Publish: Sri Lanka,Colombo

Year: 2009

Page Numbers: 274

Acc. No: 4896

Class No: 323 JAY-SL

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Civil and Political Rights

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English

ISBN: 0-86232-265-0

For twenty-five years, Kumari Jayawardenas 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 Philippines 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.Blurb Source- Amazon.com