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Before Bandung: The Anti-Imperialist Women's Movement In Asia And The Women's International Democratic Federation, Elisabeth Armstrong
Before Bandung: The Anti-Imperialist Women's Movement In Asia And The Women's International Democratic Federation, Elisabeth Armstrong
Study of Women and Gender: Faculty Publications
The 1949 Conference of the Women of Asia held by the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) amplified a new anti-imperialist solidarity movement for women in the global South. Leftist feminists emerged from anticolonial movements to organize mass-based women’s groups, a process that created new alliances between regional women’s groups. In India, and across Asia, most groups concentrated their efforts on rural women embedded in the agricultural economy. This article looks at the forms of solidarity and the ideologies of anti-imperialist women’s activism that turned the charity model of Western feminist internationalism on its head. Before the celebrated Bandung Conference of …
Indian Peasant Women’S Activism In A Hot Cold War, Elisabeth Armstrong
Indian Peasant Women’S Activism In A Hot Cold War, Elisabeth Armstrong
Study of Women and Gender: Faculty Publications
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Obscuring Gender-Based Violence: Marriage Promotion And Teen Dating Violence Research, Carrie N. Baker, Nan Stein
Obscuring Gender-Based Violence: Marriage Promotion And Teen Dating Violence Research, Carrie N. Baker, Nan Stein
Study of Women and Gender: Faculty Publications
This article argues that United States public policies have prioritized marriage and healthy relationship promotion over research and education about gendered violence in adult and teen relationships, despite evidence of the prevalence of intimate partner and teen dating violence that disproportionately impacts women and girls. The lack of a gender-based analysis reflects a shift from a feminist framing of violence that focuses on the safety and well-being of women and girls based on an analysis of gender, power, and structural inequalities, to ward a conservative focus on individualistic solutions to gendered social problems like poverty and violence.