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Format: xxiv, 701 Seiten , Illustrationen

Edition: 1st ed. 2023

ISBN: 9783031131264

Content: This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of activism, political strategies and transnational networks. Comprising twenty-five chapters, based on new and primary research, the book presents the lives of self-identified communist women from a truly international perspective and outlines their struggles against fascism and colonialism, and for women’s emancipation and national liberation. By using the lens of transnational political biography, the chapters capture the broader picture of these women’s lives, unpacking the links between the so-called public and private, the power structures and inequalities of their societies, the formal networks and politics in which they were involved, and the informal connections and friendships that supported their activism both at the national and international level. Challenging androcentric and Eurocentric narratives about communism, this Handbook reveals the active and significant roles of women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century communist movements and regimes, and highlights the importance of communist women in shaping the agenda for women’s rights worldwide.

Note: Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register , Introduction : towards a global history of communist women , Part I Global foremothers , Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) : a rebel building the socialist and communist international women's movements , Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) : communism as the only way towards women's liberation , A right to be radical : Claudia Jones (1915-1964) and the "super-exploitation of the black woman" , Part II Europe , Helen Crawfurd (1877-1954) : Scottish suffragette and international communist , Ana Pauker (1893-1960) : the infamous Romanian woman communist leader , Dolores Ibárruri, Pasionaria (1895-1989) : communist woman of steel, global icon , Teresa Noce (1900-1980) : a communist "professional revolutionary" in twentieth-century Italy , Edwarda Orłowska (1906-1977) : a story of communist activism in Poland told in words and silences , Nina Vasilievna Popova (1908-1994) : "woman in the land of socialism" , Part III Asia , Deng Yingchao (1904-1992) : a feminist leader in the Chinese communist party , Pak Chŏng-ae (1907-?) : from Red Labor Unions to the Korean Democratic Women's Union , Iijima Aiko (1932-2005) : a feminist's fight against discrimination in Japan , Nguyễn Thi Bình (b. 1927): "the flower and fire of the revolution" , Umi Sardjono (1923-2011) and the quest to build a new society for Indonesian women , Behice Boran (1910-1987) : a committed communist woman in Cold War Turkey , Part IV Africa and the Middle East , Naziha al-Dulaimi (1923-2007) and the anticolonial struggle in Iraq , "Not only the country's independence, mine too!" : Arlette Bourgel, an Algerian Jewish communist (b. 1928) , Aoua Keita (1912-1980) : anti-colonial activist, nationalist politician, and feminist in Mali (West Africa) , Part V Oceania , "A key person internationally" : Freda Brown (1919-2009), Australian activist , Dancing for the revolution : Rona Bailey, New Zealand artist activist (1914-2005) , Part VI The Americas , Jeanne Corbin (1906-1944) : a Canadian communist militant in a man's world , Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) : mortal enemy of capitalism , Gachita Amador (1891-1961), between two loves : communist action and Guignol theater , Vilma Espín (1930-2007) : forging a new woman within the Cuban revolution , "When my life goes out ..." : biography of the Argentinian communist activist Fanny Edelman (1911-2011)

Additional Edition: 10.1007/978-3-031-13127-1

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783031131271

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe The Palgrave handbook of communist women activists around the world Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 ISBN 9783031131271

Language: English

Subjects: History , Sociology

Keywords: Kommunismus ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung

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URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Rezension  (H-Soz-Kult)