Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World

Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World evaluates the effect of political upheaval on the way that women live and on the most basic of social organizations - the family. The contributors use a variety of theoretical approaches to analyze how women as a class have experienced specific twentieth-century revolutions. They identify the issues that prompted women to participate in the struggles, the roles they played, the contributions they made, and their hopes for better lives for themselves as women in the post-revolutionary society. In some instances, gender issues were used to mobilize men in support of individuals and parties seeking political power in the new order, and in other cases, attempts by revolutionaries to spearhead changes in gender relations became focal points for counter-revolution. The contributors note why and how women themselves sometimes oppose changes in gender relations, and how that opposition affects post-revolutionary politics. -- Women and revolution: a framework for analysis / Mary Ann Tétreault -- Women and revolution in Mozambique: a luta continua / Kathleen Sheldon -- "This, too, is a way of fighting": rural women's participation in Zimbabwe's liberation war / Sita Ranchod-Nilsson -- "Men in our country behave like chiefs": women and the Angolan revolution / Catherine V. Scott -- Women and revolution in Vietnam / Mary Ann Tétreault -- Women and revolution in China: the sources of constraints on women's emancipation / Kyung Ae Park -- Women and revolution in South and North Korea / Kyung Ae Park -- Women and revolution in Indonesia / Susan MacFarland -- Revolution, Islamist reaction, and women in Afghanistan/ Valentine M. Moghadam -- Women and revolution in Yugoslavia (1945-1989) / Obrad Kesic -- Sexuality and the politics of revolution in Iran / Farideh Farhi -- Women, revolution, and Israel / Connie Jorgensen -- Whose honor? Whose liberation? Women and the reconstruction of politics in Kuwait / Mary Ann Tétreault -- Women, Adamocracy, and the Bolivian social revolution / Gratzia Villarroel Smeall -- Gender and the Mexican revolution: the intersection of family, state, and church / Diane Mitsch Bush, Stephen P. Mumme -- Remaking the public sphere: women and revolution in Cuba / Sheryl L. Lutjens -- Women and the counter-revolution in Chile / Joan Supplee -- Simultaneous revolutions and exits: a semi-skeptical comment / Christine Sylvester -- Women and revolution: what have we learned? / Mary Ann Tétreault Includes bibliographical references and index