Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

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Zed Books, 1986 - Social Science - 269 pages
For twenty-five years, Kumari Jayawardenas text has been an essential primer on the history of womens movements in Asia and the Middle Eastfrom Egypt, Turkey and Iran, to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, Korea and the Philippinesin the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jayawardena presents a feminism that didnt 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.

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Civilization Through Womens Emancipation in Turkey
25
Reformism and Womens Rights in Egypt
43
Nationalism and Protests by Women
51
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Kumari Jayawardena taught Political Science at the University of Colombo, 1969-1985, when she retired as Associate Professor. During the years 1980-82, she taught at the Institute of Social Studies at the Hague, and was an Affiliate Fellow at the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, USA in 1987-88. She is currently a Senior Fellow of the Graduate Studies Institute of Colombo University. She also serves as Secretary of the Social Scientists' Association, a group of concerned scholars working on ethnic, gender, caste and other issues.Her books include:The Rise of the Labor Movement in Ceylon(Duke University Press, 1972)Ethnic and Class Conflicts in Ceylon (1985)Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (Zed Books, 1986)The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia during British Rule (Routledge, 1995).Embodied Violence: Communalising Women's Sexuality in South Asia (coedited) (Zed Books and Kali for Women, 1998).

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