East–South Women Internationalism at the Cold War Periphery

Coming Together in Tashkent, Havana, and Beyond

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

This open access book by Yulia Gradskova examines women’s internationalism and gatherings in the places understood as Cold War peripheries.East–South Women Internationalism at the Cold War Periphery: Coming Together in Tashkent, Havana, and Beyond examines women’s gatherings, internationalism, political travel, and networks through questioning established geopolitical categories. While female “political tourists” coming to cities like Tashkent and Havana cannot be seen as free from neither the superpowers’ open and hidden confrontational agendas nor from Cold War surveillance and pressures, Gradskova demonstrates that they significantly contributed to the advancement of transnational women’s rights. Simultaneously, East-South Women Internationalism at the Cold War Periphery contributes to the growing field of decolonial criticism regarding the “second world” emancipation project by detailing how its vision of progress hindered many other voices and visions of the future from being heard. Gradskova’s attention to the mundane problems and pleasures of traveling, coming together, and writing letters allows for distinguishing implicit details of curiosity, emotional attachment as well as (self) censorship and hierarchies; in turn, helping to reconstruct parts of women’s robust and complex participation in the building of the transnational connectivity trespassing the Cold War division lines.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-27
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:596 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666943436

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Yulia Gradskova is Associate Professor of History and research coordinator at the Center for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden. Gradskova is the author of The Women’s International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War: Defending the Rights of Women of the ‘Whole World’? (2020), and Soviet Politics of Emancipation of Ethnic Minority Women. Natsionalka (2018).

Recensioner i media

Gradskova’s analysis beautifully outlines dimensions of women’s political lives and selves that are frequently overlooked in studies of the Cold War. This book brings to life meetings, strategies, discussions and debates in which women proposed visions of a better future and fought for what they believed. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in how women aspired to shape the decolonizing world.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Women’s Gatherings at the Periphery: A Critical Perspective on Cold War “East-South” InternationalismsChapter 1: Coming Together for a “Better Future?” Contexts, Places, and MemoriesChapter 2: Women Going Places: Between Political Duties and the Tourist GazeChapter 3: South-East Women’s Internationalism from Tashkent: Building a (Post)Colonial Sisterhood?Chapter 4: The Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) and Internationalism from Havana Chapter 5: Internationalism, “Care for Mothers,” and Reproductive Rights Chapter 6: East-South Women’s Networks and Education for Women: Visions, Discussions, and Practices Chapter 7: A School that “Opens up the World?” Latin American Women Taking a Course in HavanaFinal ReflectionsAppendix: Archival Sources, Periodicals, and Oral SourcesBibliographyIndex

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