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Irene Bandhauer-Scho ̈ffmann’s chapter focuses on gender and hunger, showing that women became both the scavengers and victims of scarcity in postwar Vienna. Based on oral histories and content analysis, these studies doc-ument the desire of most women to resume traditional domestic roles.
The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement' Jo Freeman University of Chicago The emergence in the last few years of a feminist movement caught most thoughtful observers by surprise. Women had "come a long way," had they not? What could they want to be liberated from? The new movement generated much speculation about the sources of female ...
The Undeclared War against Women, published in 1991, and describing the negative reaction of the patriarchal system towards women’s liberation. This was hardly a new phenomenon: women’s movements had always been met with antagonism.
a theoretical framework that asks how women protest war, what they protest, what women's peace movements have in common, and what this means for the relationship between feminism and war. Chapter 6 explores whether the methods of these women's peace groups of different sizes, organizations and purposes have anything in common.
Women's liberation groups in Europe were distinguished from other feminist activists by their focus on women's rights to control their own bodies and sexuality, as well as their direct actions aimed at provoking the public and making society aware of the issues faced by women.
Sara Evans’s historical examination, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left, is a pioneering scholarly study of the feminist movement and in the field of women’s history.
17 kwi 2013 · 5 Communist support for women’s rights was emphatically not ‘feminist’, reflecting the Bolshevik—and Marxist—understanding of ‘feminism’ as a bourgeois ideology promoted by upper-class women seeking to advance their own interests at the expense of class solidarity.
