Gender and Activism

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Gender and Activism is written by Wilhelmina Dorothea Emma Aerts and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9087045859 (ISBN 10) and 9789087045852 (ISBN 13).

Focus on various ways in which women were active and organized themselves in order to question sex and gender related issues in the political arena. The authors discuss how women protested against perceived religious suppression; particpated in local democratic political institutions whilst not really changing gender roles; discussed discrepancies between socialism and feminism. They explore how women find their ways in democratic systems of governance and what these systems offer women in terms of emancipation and involvement in political decision making affecting their lives. Contents: Introduction: MIEKE AERTS, Contesting Representations: Towards New Histories of Women's Activism; KATRINE SMIET, One Size Fits All? Femen and the Limits of Secular Feminism; ELENA BORGHI, 'The time has now come for women to review and reform this system': Female Subjectivity and the Debate over Child Marriage in Late Colonial India; MYRIAM EVERARD, A Colour Portrait of Rosa Manus; JOSEPHINE VAN DEN BENT, Fighting for Female Voices in a Patriarchical Society. Women's Activism in (Post- )revolutionary Egypt; ULLA JANSZ, Women Workers Contested. Socialists, Feminists and Democracy at the National Exhibition of Women's Labour in The Hague, 1898; MARJAN GROOT, Women Political Leaders and the Design of Campaign Portait Posters; MANON PERRY, Feminist Opposition to Abortion. Feframing Histories to Limit Reproductive Rights; SENEM YILDRIM, The Case of Female Mukhtars in Turkey: the 'Glass Ceiling' of Local Politics; KARLIJN OLIJSLAGER, Motherhood, Domestic Display, and Democracy in the Exhibition 'The Dutch Women 1898-1948'.