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'Urvashi Butalia was interviewed during a visit to Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2019' NF:Urvashi, my first question is a very broad one. As one of the foremost feminist voices in contemporary India, who also has significant connections with global feminisms, how would you help feminists elsewhere to understand the contemporary Indian context? But then in places like the US and UK, self-proclaimed feminists, or elements of feminist movements, are aggressively disallowing trans and gender non-conforming people, which seems like an echo of the rejection of black and lesbian women that marked earlier forms of feminism. [Extracted from the article]

Even the seemingly liberal Czechoslovak political elites were anxious about the notion of depopulation, and feared the death of the nation, which led them to disregard the societal need for modernizing family planning. At the same time, Czechoslovak women experts were significantly involved in debates on conceptions of the family. They fueled debates on the sexual liberation of women in Czechoslovakia not as a matter of ideology or morality, but as a matter of public health, social justice, and reproductive rights. This paper aims to look at these women experts and their active role in academic debates on Czechoslovak policies on family and reproduction. Looking at the case of Czechoslovakia, as a non-Western country, this article then discusses the issues of the marginalization of women's activism and feminism in the East. The article suggests that, by applying a decolonial lens, a broader inclusion of the history of feminism of non-Western women can be achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gender issues have become increasingly compelling for both scholars and the general public in Estonia in the past twenty years. This can, for example, be seen in the March 2022 issue of the Estonian cultural magazine Vikerkaar which published a lengthy overview of the history of Estonian feminism (Karro 2022). The overview attempts to show the length of this history and its continuity under different political regimes, refreshing older surveys published by Vera Poska-Grünthal (1936) and Helmi Mäelo (1957 in Sweden, reprinted in Estonia in 1999). Such surveys list notable women and significant milestones, but do not usually delve into the nuances of gender history or feminist thought like in-depth case studies. This more nuanced work has been done in the past seven years by the gender studies research group within the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies. The present article reviews the state of Estonian research, both within the research group and more broadly, and points out the main challenges that scholars face. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review and its special issue, which covers a range of topics in Chinese economic history. The topics include state censorship during 1644-1790, marital fertility over three centuries, the transmission of wood-block carving and printing skills across generations, the long-term impact of administrative arrangements north and south of the Great Wall, and informal networks facilitating trust.

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Andes traces del Valle's family's migration story from France and Spain and is able to credibly recreate her similarly peripatetic childhood, which explains del Valle's native or near-native fluency in English and French, as well as her very Mexican Spanish, which he manages to bring out even in translation. Stephen J. C. Andes begins his biography of the Mexican Catholic activist Sofía del Valle in 1934, when the incoming administration of Lázaro Cárdenas intercepted and willfully misinterpreted private letters she had sent from the United States to church figures in Mexico. Andes recognizes the way del Valle's faith shaped her work from day to day. Andes's biography is, in many ways, the story of what Miranda and del Valle were able to achieve together. [Extracted from the article]

This document is a bibliography on feminism in the 21st century that includes a selection of books in the Spanish language that address topics related to feminism and women's thinking. Some of the mentioned books are "Salomón no era sabio" by Celia Amorós, "Mujeres y poder. Un manifiesto" by Mary Beard, and "Feminismo posthumano" by Rosi Braidoti. The bibliography seeks to offer a sample of current thematic and theoretical interests in the field of feminism in the Spanish-speaking world, and the books address a variety of topics related to feminism, including the history of feminism, feminist theory, gender violence, gender identity, and feminist activism. The authors include renowned feminists and scholars such as Judith Butler, Simone de Beauvoir, and bell hooks. These books are a valuable source of information for those interested in researching and understanding feminism and gender studies. [Extracted from the article]

This work is based on a theoretical research study on Southern Feminisms and Social Intervention developed at the National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina. The South is understood as a metaphor for human suffering systematically caused by the oppression and domination of an imperialist, capitalist, colonial and patriarchal North. It is a very powerful geo-corporate-political and epistemological metaphor because it reveals and problematises the devices used for oppression and domination. This article uses cartography as a methodology to make explicit the analytical and interpretative matrices present in decolonial feminisms and community feminisms. It also makes explicit the criticisms that these feminisms make of hegemonic-academic-Western feminism. Contributions from feminist experiences in Australia and New Zealand are included and the specific contributions of Southern Feminisms to the theory and practice of social work are made explicit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Even when we cannot speak of specifically feminist reflections in authors such as Zambrano, Chacel, or Martín Gaite, who in many of their contributions did not refer explicitly to women, their writings can be linked to a feminist approach. Spanish feminist thought then started an internal debate between two theoretical tendencies: so-called difference feminism and equality feminism. Roberta Johnson, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019 (ISBN 978-1-4384-7369-7) In I Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory i , Roberta Johnson reconstructs Spanish feminist thought in an accessible and original way. Johnson displays a deep knowledge of the history of Spanish feminist thought, and communicates a fluid, coherent, and rigorous understanding that gives us access to the lesser known writings of these recovered Spanish feminist authors. [Extracted from the article]

This paper addresses feminisms in Spain during the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century, proposing a number of interpretative keys for their historical analysis. Spanish feminism has been diverse, and its emancipatory aspirations, demands and discourses often have not coincided with those of the European or American suffragist movements. In these pages, an attempt is made to gain further insights into the principal challenges that Spanish historiography has met when analyzing this complex phenomenon, while suggesting that this has contributed to breathing new life into research on historical feminisms as a whole. Special attention is also paid to how feminist critique developed on the basis of different ways of understanding sexual difference. Lastly, I look at how expectations for change were created and how feminist vindications were formulated in different discursive frameworks, namely those of religion, liberal principles and socialist and anarchist political cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The topic signaled by the title is presented on the basis of several journalistic texts: the controversial book Thalitha kumi and articles by “fighting” women, including Cecylia Walewska, Kazimiera Bujwidowa, Iza Moszczeńska, Maria Turzyma, and Maria Czesława Przewóska. The fate of women over the centuries presented in them forms the “history of injustice,” which was blamed on, among other things, Christianity, which had distorted the teachings of Jesus. In the name of fighting forces hostile to progress, emancipatory journalism repeatedly attacked the institutional Church, seen as a bedrock of conservatism, backwardness, and dogmatism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article talks about the Triple Jeopardy newspaper, the official news organ of the Third World Women's Alliance, and its political education events and articles that covered a broad range of domestic and international issues. It says that the paper's collective authorship served as a method of protecting members from state surveillance, and the writing was embedded in organizational work, rather than existing alone.

Historian Susan Zimmermann brought to scholars' attention a 1942 protest statement issued by the Liaison Committee of Women's International Organisations (LCWIO) in which they protested Nazi violence and abuses. Zimmermann characterized the protest statement as a "public and united stand" taken by the leading women's organizations. The phrasing of the protest was unusual in its attention to the "extermination" and "spoliation" of the lives, culture, and property of those victimized. I analyze the significance of this women-authored anti-atrocities document in historical context using archival sources. I argue that two refugee women instigated this legally oriented protest statement and that the statement was part of a modestly larger pattern of anti-atrocities campaigns. Rather than being united, as women's groups later claimed, evidence points to divisiveness, challenges building networks of allies to respond to war crimes, and difficulty in making themselves heard once they decided to act collectively on a gender-specific analysis of atrocities. This research bridges the fields of the history of feminism and Holocaust history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)'s 40-year path of emancipation and solidarity, finding parallels between the Palestinian and Indigenous movements against settler colonialism. Topics covered include the importance of land in Indigenous identity, the historical roots of Chicana feminism, and testimonies from immigrant Latina breast cancer survivors, with an emphasis on collective healing among oppressed groups.

This microhistory is a study of one woman's efforts in New York City between 1907 and 1911 to join the efforts of three local feminist organizations—Greenwich House, the National Consumers League, and the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL)—that were combining the energies of women from the industrial working class, middle class, and upper class in sustained drives to improve the working conditions and wages of women factory and steam laundry workers. One woman who devoted herself to these three organizational cross-class initiatives was Carola Woerishoffer (1885–1911). Microhistory is a method of studying the past that makes use of remnants of evidence still available about people, organizations, or communities that have been partially or completely forgotten. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The feminist agenda in Russia experienced a phase of intense aesthetic search in the field of contemporary art and contemporary theater. The split in society, war, increased censorship and state propaganda, and mass emigration stopped this process. Feminist ethics and aesthetics are oriented toward democratic values and the absolute value of human life; it is difficult for them to survive in totalitarian states. Using material from the history of feminism and aesthetic practices in the post-perestroika decades of Russia, this article examines two historical forms of such survival: the Stockholm syndrome and, in more detail, "anti-propaganda", the popularization of the feminist agenda through aesthetic practices with mandatory feedback and the utmost attention to individual fate and personal trauma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

B Sandra McEvoy b is a clinical associate professor of political science and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Boston University. B Megan Burke b is associate professor of philosophy at Sonoma State University and the author of I When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence i (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019). She is the author of multiple books, including I The Tragedy of Heterosexuality i (New York: New York University Press, 2020) and I Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men i (New York: New York University Press, 2015). [Extracted from the article]

One might view Salamon's essay as something of an historical curiosity, a proto-Jewish-feminist text that may deserve a paragraph in any history of Jewish feminism, but which played no real role in the development of that movement. Salamon claims that the Tosefta was composed before the Mishnah and gives witness to Judaism's original, more egalitarian stance on female ritual participation. Mózes Salamon (1838-1912) was a relatively little-known rabbi living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire who wrote, among his other equally little-known works, a remarkable pamphlet, I The Path of Moses: A Scholarly Essay on the Case of Women in Religious Faith i (original Hebrew title: I Netiv Moshe: Maamar Me kari 'al Mishpat haNashim baEmunah i ). [Extracted from the article]

The article analyzes the history of feminism in Argentina from the early 20th century until the recovery of democracy in 1983. It highlights the resurgence of the feminist movement in the 1960s and its limitation during the military dictatorship. With the return to democracy, the movement was reactivated and the first feminist demonstration was held in 1984. The creation of the National Campaign for Free, Safe, and Legal Abortion in 2005 and the Ni una menos agency in 2015 are mentioned. The development of rights for gender and sexual dissidents is also highlighted. The article presents a list of laws and reforms that have ensured rights for women and people of diverse gender identities, but it points out that inequalities and discrimination still persist. [Extracted from the article]

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In July 1917, Alice Mannering became the Socialist Party nominee for mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and the first woman candidate for the office of mayor in the state of Indiana. Suffragists across Indiana were anticipating being able to vote in the November 1917 elections, after the passage of a partial suffrage bill by the state General Assembly. Mannering's ambitions, and the hopes of suffragists, were dashed when the state Supreme Court ruled the legislation unconstitutional. Jamie Wagman examines the life of Alice Mannering—suffragist, socialist, and political activist—and considers how she challenged gender roles and inspired generations of her descendants to social activism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

B Daniella Cádiz Bedini b Daniella Cádiz Bedini is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. B Maylei Blackwell b Maylei Blackwell is professor and vice chair of Chicana/o and Central American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. B Jessica Hurley b Jessica Hurley is assistant professor of English and affiliate faculty in Native American and Indigenous studies, cultural studies, and women and gender studies at George Mason University. [Extracted from the article]

5 Natalie Havlin, "'To Live a Humanity under the Skin': Revolutionary Love and Third World Praxis in 1970s Chicana Feminism", I Women's Studies Quarterly i 43.3 (2015): 82. 6 Loretta Ross, interview with Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez, March 3 and August 6, 2006, Atlanta, GA, and Oakland, CA, in Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA, p. 5. 7 Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, I Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era i (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013), 213. 2 Annemarie Pérez, "'Tu Reata Es Mi Espada': Elizabeth Sutherland's Chicana Formation", in I Chicanas Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era i , ed. Later, as coeditor for I El Grito del Norte i , Martínez was proud of the fact that of all the newspapers of that era, theirs was distinguishably "international,"[11] sending reporters to many of the countries affected by imperialist invasions.[12] In fact, Martínez herself visited North Vietnam in 1970, the first Chicana civil rights leader to do so.[13] Martínez was part of an internationalist current of the Chicano Movement. Multiple Insurgent Feminisms A central, if not a fully recognized figure in Chicana emancipation, Martínez was not only an early feminist: her cross-movement work and multiple insurgencies came to define a complex, nuanced intersectional feminism that she forged in multi-issue organizing.[16] As Martínez (and another SNCC Chicana member, Maria Varela) both struggled to find their place in an organization that began to turn toward Black nationalism, Martínez eventually left SNCC and dedicated her writing talents to the New Mexican Land Grant Movement. [Extracted from the article]

From sporadic writings and intermittent movements to today's sustained presence, feminism has been challenged to become inclusive and accommodative of glocal power structures. A transformative approach posits the possibility of change--from identifying injustices suffered to marshalling historical evidence to create an action plan for change. Gloria Jean Watson's book, Ain't I a Woman, written in 1981 under the pseudonym bell hooks, revisits colonialist and slave narratives to forward the idea of the white, capitalist, patriarchal ideology underpinning the oppression of blacks. While capitalist ideology owns the slave and their labor, patriarchal abuse of black women has been insistent and consistent. Furthermore, it dissects modern media representations of women to confirm their devaluation and subordination. The objectives of the paper are to present Ain't I a Woman as a seminal book that sign-posted aphonic noise in feminism and to eviscerate the core issues of black feminism: social class and race as accomplices which together with sexism marginalize women of color. This paper delineates the pathbreaking engagement with black history, experience, and feminism that enlarged the movement to be inclusive and representative of difference and explores its extension in the Indian context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Any cause which challenges the established order faces an uphill battle and history has demonstrated that it is a long road to success, particularly if the goal is nothing less than equality among human beings. This paper offers an overview of the first steps of the modern feminist movement and its eventual successes, tracing the history of feminism from its initial unity to later atomisation due to the conflicting liberal, socialist and communist ideologies that swept Europe and America throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The movement, in the modern sense of the term, began in 1789. By the 20th century, the feminist cause had achieved notable successes thanks to its ability to unite countless individuals, while overcoming ideological divisions, to achieve a single objective: women's right to vote. Subsequently, within the new international order arising out of the Second World War, these latent divisions played out on the international stage. However, gender equality and the rights of women has now become a central issue in international debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) feminist visionaries have contributed to a paradigm shift in feminist theory and practice by espousing an intersectional and inclusive conceptualization of liberation. In this special issue, we recognize and honor seven feminist visionaries who shared their journeys including formative experiences and challenges which fomented a desire for equity, justice, and collective wellbeing. The transformations to feminism, psychology, psychotherapy, and other areas following their immeasurable contributions are vast and have produced enduring changes. The contributors also offer their reflections and wisdom about what remains unfinished in service to building an equitable and just society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the history of Arab feminism. It traces how those women came from different parts of Arab world and how they developed their awareness towards women's issues, though they do not call themselves as 'feminists' at the beginning. The paper aims to study the history of feminism in the Arab world. To show the struggle of the first Arab women feminists. To focus on the crucial issues of women's concern. The paper uses feminist approach as it concerns with women's important issues. The study traces how the Arab feminism started in Egypt and then the other parts of Arab World as Egypt has been the first Arab country to get its independence from the British rule. The concern for women issues started first in the national level as struggle for their independence and after the independence the struggle changed to women issues. The paper concluded by stating that the struggle of Arab women's feminist discourse advocated to significant women's problems like education, work, and the right for suffrage. They also confronted by other troubles, such as breaking out of gender segregation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Notes, bibliography, index.) Rebecca DeWolf's book about the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a timely and interesting study. Part 1 traces how the original conflict occurred between two groups DeWolf terms "emancipationists" and "protectionists", and she notes that both groups included people who were not feminists of any kind. DeWolf argues that there was an "original ERA conflict" in the 1920s and 1930s and a second conflict in the 1970s. [Extracted from the article]

Evolving digital tools are opening new avenues of inquiry for historical research. This research note provides a methodology for collecting historical data on government grants to non-governmental organizations. State funding has had a profound impact on the voluntary sector since the 1960s. The women's movement, in particular, has been deeply impacted by the state's intervention into the voluntary sector. Using grants data has the potential to provide unique insights into the dynamics between the state and civil society. Among other things, it enables historians to track organizations over time periods and jurisdictions; to document the diversity of organizations in the voluntary sector; to identify new organizations for historical research; and to compare funding trends among organizations or governments by region, time period, and issue area. The methodology presented in this study includes the use of digital tools to collect, process, and analyze grants data from multiple levels of government while sharing some preliminary findings on the impact of state funding on the women's movement in Canada since the 1960s. The data reveal, among other things, how state funding has fostered the proliferation of voluntary organizations and privileged certain organizations within the movement as well as vast disparities in funding among regions within Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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