- 224 pages
- English
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Women and Politics in the Third World
About this book
Women and Politics in the Third World is the first comprehensive textbook on women's political activities in the third world. It provides a feminist analytical perspective on the specific forms of resistance, organisation and negotiation by women in third world states. Using case studies, the book focuses on difference as a theoretical basis for investigating feminine political activism. Though Western analysts have attributed weakness to terms such as motherhood, marriage and domesticity, as choices made by non-Western women, the contributors show that such strategies are used by women to pursue particular goals such as seeking resources, welfare or freedom from oppression for their children. These strategies, the book suggests, should not be classified as unimportant or temporary and can be highly effective even within such discourses as Islamic fundamentalism.
The contributors highlight differing political approaches in regions as diverse as Latin America, South East Asia, China and the Middle East.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Series preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Analysing women in the politics of the Third World
- 2. Women and the state in the Third World
- 3. Feminist perspectives on democratisation in the South: engendering or adding women in?
- 4. The role of women in the resistance to political authoritarianism in Latin America and South Asia
- 5. Nicaraguan women, resistance, and the politics of aid
- 6. Chinese women: media concerns and the politics of reform
- 7. Social policies and rural women’s fertility behaviour in the People’s Republic of China, 1979–90
- 8. Women and the politics of fundamentalism in Iran
- 9. Women and politics in post-Khomeini Iran: divorce, veiling and emerging feminist voices
- 10. The women’s movement, feminism and the national struggle in Palestine: unresolved contradictions
- 11. Palestinian women and the Intifada: an exploration of images and realities
- Index