Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism: Transnational Histories
Role
Barbara Molony (Editor)
Jennifer Nelson (Editor)
Files
Description
Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women's activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings of historical feminism.
It is no longer possible to imagine that feminism has ever fostered an unproblematic sisterhood among women blind to race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality and citizenship status. The chapters in this collection modify the "wave" metaphor in some cases and in others re-periodize it. By studying individual movements, they collectively address several themes that advance our understandings of the history of feminism, such as the rejection of "hegemonic" feminism by marginalized feminist groups, transnational linkages among women's organizations, transnational flows of ideas and transnational migration. By analyzing practical activism, the chapters in this volume produce new ways of theorizing feminism and new historical perspectives about the activist locations from which feminist politics emerged.
Including histories of feminisms in the United States, Canada, South Africa, India, France, Russia, Japan, Korea, Poland and Chile, Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism provides a truly global re-appraisal of women's movements in the late 20th century.
ISBN
978-1474250511
Publication Date
2-9-2017
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Disciplines
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Recommended Citation
Molony, Barbara and Nelson, Jennifer, "Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism: Transnational Histories" (2017). Faculty Book Gallery. 300.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/300