Faminism and Nationalism in the Third World

by Kumari Jayawardena

Book Overview

For twenty-five years, Kumari Jayawardenas text has been an essential primer on the history of womens movements in Asia and the Middle Eastfrom Egypt, Turkey and Iran, to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, Korea and the Philippinesin the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jayawardena presents a feminism that didnt originate as an ideology of the West to be adopted by women in the Third World, but that instead erupted from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0862322650
• ISBN13: 9780862322656
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.