Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism

Barbara Molony is Professor of History at Santa Clara University, USA. She is co-author of Gender in Modern East Asia (2016) and co-editor of Asia's New Mothers: Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies (2008) and Gendering Modern Japanese History (2005).Jennifer Nelson is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Redlands, USA. She is the author of More than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement (2015) and Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (2003).

Makes an important contribution to the developing field, particularly in reconfiguring the history of women’s activism away from western and white Eurocentric dominance. The book has a very wide reach, with fourteen chapters devoted to the histories of marginalised women across the globe, all of whom committed themselves to activism which benefited their communities in many different ways.

• Introduction Barbara Molony (Santa Clara University, USA) and Jennifer Nelson (University of Redlands, USA)I. Redefining Feminism 1. Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation: The Food Activism of United Bronx Parents (Lana Povitz, New York University, USA)2. ‘Sex-Ins, College Style’: Black Feminism and Sexual Politics in the Student YWCA, 1968-1980 (April Haynes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)3. Contemporary Feminisms and Controversies about the Principle of Secularity in France: A Model of Emancipation (Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz, Free University of Brussels, Belgium)4. SEWA’s Feminism (Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)5. Feminist Dissidents in the ‘Motherland of Women’s Liberation: Shattering Soviet Myths and Memory (Rochelle Ruthchild, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, USA)II. Reconsidering “Second Wave” Feminist Genealogies6. On the ‘F’ Word as Insult and on Feminism as Political Practice: Women’s Mobilization for Rights in Chile (Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, University of Arizona, USA)7. Beyond the ‘Development’ Paradigm: State Socialist Women’s Activism, Transnationalism and the ‘Long Sixties’ (Magdalena Grabowska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)8. ‘Making a Point by Choice’: Maternal Imperialism, Second Wave Feminism, and Transnational Epistemologies (Priya Jha, University of Redlands, USA)9. Shared History and the Responsibility for Justice: The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan (Seung-kyung Kim, Indiana University-Bloomington, USA and Na Young Lee, Chung-Ang University, South Korea)III. Transnational Feminist Linkages 10. Mapping the Edges of Environmental Suburbia: Gender, Action, and the City in Late-Century California (Jeannette Alden Estruth, New York University, USA)11. The Politics and Possibilities of ‘Difference’ in Dalit Feminist Activism (Purvi Mehta, Colorado College, USA)12. One Thousand Wednesdays: Transnational Activism from Seoul to Glendale (Vera Mackie, University of Wollongong, Australia)13. Contesting the Nation(s): Haitian and Mohawk Women’s Activism in Montreal (Amanda Ricci, McGill University, Canada)14. If Not Feminism, Then What? Women’s Work in the African National Congress in Exile (Rachel Sandwell, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)Index