Women and Revolution: Global Expressions
Taking its starting point from women's contributions to the French revolution, this important anthology goes far beyond any particular historical, European or American context and expands its scope in space and time to an all-inclusive global theme, namel
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WOMEN AND REVOLUTION: GLOBAL EXPRESSIONS
Edited by
M. J. DIAMOND Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NY, US.A.
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
A c.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-90-481-5073-1 ISBN 978-94-015-9072-3 (eBook) DOl 10.1007/978-94-015-9072-3
Printed on acid-free paper
All Rights Reserved © 1998 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht and copyright holders as specified on appropriate pages within.
Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1998. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1998 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.
For Sarah, and in memory of my husband, Stanley Diamond, 1922-1991.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Illustration
x
Acknowledgements
xi
Notes on Contributors
Xlll
M. 1. Diamond
Introduction
xvii
Part I. Western Paradigms: France, Russia, the United States 1. Olympe de Gouges and the French Revolution: The Construction of Gender as Critique M. J. Diamond
1
2. Louise Michel and the Paris Commune of 1871: The Performance of Revolution M. J. Diamond
21
3. Medicine and Politics: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Paris Commune Joy Harvey
45
4. 5.
Women and the Russian Revolution
Ziva Galili
Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Reform or Revolution? Rhoda Lois Blumberg
6. Women in the Welfare Rights Movement: Reform or Revolution? Guida West
vii
63
79
91
viii
Part II. Village TraditionslModern Situations: Africa, Iran, India 7. The Women's War of 1929 in South-Eastern Nigeria Felicia I. Abaraonye
109
8. Anlu Remembered: The Kom Women's Rebellion of 1958-61 Eugenia Shanklin
133
9. Black Women Freedom Fighters in South Africa and in the United States: A Comparative Analysis Rosalyn Terborg-Penn 173 10.
on all Fronts: Gendered Sp'aces, Ethnic Boun aries, and the Nigerian CivIl War Obioma Nnaemeka 11. Women and the Iranian Revolution: A Village Case Study Mary Elaine Hegland 12.
Fighti~
Feminism, Tribal Radicalism and Grassroots Mo ilization in India Amrita Bast!
185 211
Indi~enous
227
Part III. Socialist Transformations in Latin America and Cuba 13. Women in Revolutionary Movements: Changing Patterns of Latin American Guerrilla Struggle Linda M. Lobao
255
14. Women and Political Violence in Contemporary Peru Juan Lazaro
291
15. Discursive Tensions and the Subject of Discourse in 1, Rigoberta Menchu Frances Negron-Muntaner
315
16. The Political-Libidinal Economy of the Socialist Female Body: Flesh and Blood, Work and Ideas Shannon Bell
339
Part IV. Women in China from Mao to Market Reforms 17. Reflections on Women in the Chinese Revolution Marilyn B. Young
357
18. The Other Goes to Market: Gender, Sexuality, and Unruliness in Post-Mao China Louisa Schein
363
ix
Part V. By Way of Conclusion
19. Community and Resistance in Wome
