"This is the first exploration of the campaigns of women in China to gain equal rights to political participation. The dynamic and successful struggle for suffrage rights waged by Chinese women activists through the first half of the twentieth century challenged fundamental and …
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular st…
Davis offers a kind of biography of the famous women's health reference book, Our Bodies, Ourselves (OBOS) and its adaptations in different countries.
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The story of how the feminist classic Our Bodies, Ourselves has been adapted and reworked by women of different cultures around the world.
" ... Draws on new and original material from archival collections and oral histories to develop a critical understanding of the important but often overlooked period in women's activism between the 1940s and the 1970s"--Jacket, page [3].
