Introduction to Womens Activism

What is/are Womens Activism?

Womens Activism - The author offers an account of women’s activism in the Bay of Kotor in the 1990s, thereby filling a gap in the academic literature on antiwar and peace activism in Montenegro during the Yugoslav wars. ^[1] Her case study indicates that this perspective should be adopted to challenge the dominant trope in the narratives of women’s activism and to assert the importance of emotions in the political agency of other anarchist militants: sentiment was not a limit, but at the core of their pioneering ideas and political militancy. ^[2] Our research on women’s activism in Pakistan suggests donors should strategically support women’s social and political action for empowerment and accountability by continuing to support advocacy organisations, which develop women’s skills to engage with participatory political processes. ^[3] 2019: Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War. ^[4] Moving beyond such dichotomies, this paper explores women’s activism in unions to address three issues: the nature of women’s engagement with labour politics; their negotiations with their own family and the social limits of gendered behaviour; and their response to the political mainstreaming of trade unions in India. ^[5] The objective of this chapter is to go beyond such historical stories to critically rethink our history to understand how Sudanese women’s activism has informed this history. ^[6] This essay looks at the intersection of media, transnationalism, and women’s movements from a spatial feminist approach, and examines the opportunities and challenges faced by Arab women’s activism in counterpublic, mediated, and transnational spaces. ^[7] In case after case, Perry’s evidence in After the Vote demonstrates that the women who joined La Guardia’s administration brought talents developed decades earlier—in the admission of women to the city’s law schools, in work on labor-related commissions, and in the prominence of women’s activism in defense of African American civil rights. ^[8] It traces the changing role of radio as a tool for women’s activism and its wider significance to the history of women’s advancement in Australia. ^[9] Through the example of Ogoni women’s activism I provide an illustration of nonviolent resistance as an appropriate mode of resistance to the coloniality of gender because it works to fight the invisibility of Black women. ^[10] This does not diminish the book’s role as an important contribution to understanding a part of women’s activism that has not been given much attention otherwise. ^[11] The contemporary historiography mainly considers the women’s activism as an institutional phenomenon, losing thus the stories of individual women behind the history of different organisations. ^[12] This chapter introduces readers to women’s activism within the context of conflict. ^[13] A qualitative method with Foucauldian discourse analysis is applied in this study to analyse tweets expressing Islamist women’s activism published on the hashtag #Womenneedkhilafah. ^[14] The sociological research focuses on the issue of the gender strategy of civil society structures (women’s organizations and women’s activism) and its reflection in view of the local population and women activists. ^[15] Other than the fight for women’s civil rights, women’s activism in other types of social movements has been largely ignored in textbooks and in the media. ^[16] Although Black women would not have used the terms “feminist” or “feminism,” which did not enter into use until what is recognized now as the first wave of feminism, scholars have been using those terms for the past two decades to refer to Black women’s activism in the United States stretching at least as far back as the 1830s with the oratory and publications of Maria Stewart and the work of African American women in abolition and church reform. ^[17] To do so, it uses Romani women’s activism and the Council of Europe as case studies, and develops a heuristic tool – the (Un)Safeness Response Line – that builds on five categories of analysis: compliance, compromise, contestation from within, opposition and denial. ^[18]