Sisterhood is global : the international women's movement anthology / compiled, edited, introduced, and with a new preface by Robin Morgan
- Published:
- New York : Feminist Press, [1996]
- Copyright Date:
- ©1996
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 821 pages ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Morgan, Robin, 1941-
- Contents:
- Introduction : planetary feminism : the politics of the 21st century / by Robin Morgan -- Afghanistan : the silent victims / by Sima Wali -- Algeria : the day-to-day struggle / by Fatma Oussedik -- Argentina : the fire cannot be extinguished / by Leonor Calvera -- Australia : women in a warrior society / by Sara Dowse and Patricia Giles -- Austria : benevolent despotism versus the contemporary feminist movement / by Cheryl Benard and Edit Schlaffer -- Brazil : a fertile but ambiguous feminist terrain / by Danda Prado -- Britain : the politics of survival / by Amanda Sebestyen -- Canada : the empowerment of women / by Greta Hofmann Nemiroff -- Caribbean : the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Islands : fighting until the end / by Sonia M. Cuales -- The English-speaking Caribbean : a journey in the making / by Peggy Antrobus and Lorna Gordon -- The French-speaking Caribbean : Haiti : a vacation paradise of hell / by Cacos La Gonaïve -- The Spanish-speaking Caribbean : we women aren't sheep / by Magaly Pineda -- Chile : women of smoke / by Marjorie Agosin -- China : feudal attitudes, party control, and half the sky / by Xiao Lu -- Colombia : fighting for the right to fight / by Luz Helena Sã̃̃̃nchez -- Cuba : paradise gained, paradise lost : the price of "integration" / by La Silenciada -- Denmark : letter from a troubled Copenhagen redstocking / by Tinne Vammen -- Ecuador : needed : a revolution in attitude / by Carola Borja -- Egypt : when a woman rebels / by Nawal El Saadawi -- El Salvador : "we cannot wait..." / a collective statement by the Association of Salvadoran Women -- Finland : the right to be oneself / by Hikka Pietilä -- France : feminism : alive, well, and in constant danger / by Simone de Beauvoir -- Germany (East) : witch Vilmma's invention of speech-swallowing (a parable) / by Irmtraud Morgner -- Germany (West) : fragmented selves (a collage) / by Renate Berger, Ingrid Kolb, and Marielouise Janssen-Jurreit -- Ghana : to be a woman / by Ama Ata Aidoo -- Greece : a village sisterhood / by Margaret Papandreou -- Guatemala : our daily bread / by Stella Quan -- Hungary : the nonexistence of "women's emancipation" / by Suzanne Körösi -- India : a condition across caste and class / by Devaki Jain -- Indonesia : multiple roles and double burdens / by Titi Sumbung -- Iran : a future in the past : the "prerevolutionary" women's movement / by Mahnaz Afkhami -- Ireland(s) : coping with the womb and the border / by Nell McCafferty -- Israel : up the down escalator / by Shulamit Aloni -- Italy : a mortified thirst for living / by Paola Zaccaria -- and Japan : the sun and the shadow / by Keiko Higuchi -- Kenya : not just literacy, but wisdom / by Rose Adhiambo Arungu-Olende -- Korea (South) : a grandmother's vision / by Soon Chan Park -- Kuwait : God's will : and the process of socialization / by Noura Al-Falah -- Lebanon : the harem window / by Rose Ghurayyib -- Libya : the wave of consciousness cannot be reversed / by Farida Allaghi -- Mexico : pioneers and promoters of women / by Carmen Lugo -- Morocco : the merchant's daughter and the son of the sultan / by Fatima Mernissi -- Nepal : women as a caste / by Manjula Giri -- The Netherlands : in the unions, the parties, the streets, and the bedrooms / by Corrine Oudijk -- New Zealand : foreigners in our own land / by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku and Marilyn J. Waring -- Nicaragua : to my compãneras on the planet Earth / by María Lourdes Centeno de Zelaya -- Nigeria : not spinning on the axis of maleness / by ¿Molara Ogundipe-Leslie -- Norway : more power to women! / by Berit Ås. -- The Pacific Islands : all it requires is ourselves / by Vanessa Griffen -- Pakistan : women : a fractured profile / by Miriam Habib -- Palestine : women and the revolution / by Fawzia Fawzia -- Peru : "not even with a rose petal. . ." / by Ana María Portugal -- Poland : "let's pull down the Bastilles before they are built" / by Anna Titkow -- Portugal : daring to be different / by Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo -- Rumania : the "right" to be persecuted / by Elena Chiriac -- Saudi Arabia : an emerging social force / by Aisha Almana -- Senegal : elegance amid the phallocracy / by Marie-Angélique Savané -- South Africa : going up the mountain / by Motlalepula Chabaku -- South Africa : a bulletin from within / by anonymous white South African feminists -- Spain : women are the conscience of our country / by Lidia Falcón -- Sri Lanka : the voice of women / by Hema Goonatilake -- Sudan : women's studies and a new village stove / by Amna Elsadik Badri -- Sweden : similarity, singularity, and sisterhood / by Rita Liljeström -- Thailand : we superwomen must allow the men to grow up / by Mallica Vajrathon -- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics : it's time we began with ourselves / by Tatyana Mamonova -- The United Nations : "good grief, there are women here!" / by Claire de Hedervary -- The United States : honoring the vision of "changing woman" / by Rayna Green -- Venezuela : for as long as it takes / by Giovanna Merola R. -- Vietnam : "the braided army" / by Nguyen Thi Dinh -- Yugoslavia : neofeminism and its "six mortal sins" / by Rada Iveković and Slavenka Drakulić-Ilić -- Zambia : feminist progress : more difficult than decolonization / by Gwendoline Konie -- Zimbabwe : it can only be handled by women / by Olivia N. Muchena.
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- ISBN:
- 1558611606 (pbk.)
- Note:
- Originally published: New York : Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1984.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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