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Activism among Rural Mayan Women during the Guatemalan Civil War, 1960-1996
written by Rachel O'Donnell, fl. 2003 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2016), 17 page(s)
This essay focuses on the activism of rural Mayan women who participated in the insurgency during the Guatemalan civil war and have done community development work after the war.
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written by Rachel O'Donnell, fl. 2003 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2016), 17 page(s)
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This essay focuses on the activism of rural Mayan women who participated in the insurgency during the Guatemalan civil war and have done community development work after the war.
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Rachel O'Donnell, fl. 2003
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
Alexander Street
Topic / Theme
Guatemalan Civil War, 1960-1996, Indigenous Women, Women and Development, Social and Political Leadership, Social Movements and Indigenous Women, Agriculture, K'iche', Mayan, Guatemalans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Western Women in China, 1840-1950: Internationalism and Activism
written by Sarah Paddle, fl. 2009 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 11 page(s)
This collection of primary sources allows researchers to investigate Western Women in China from 1840-1950, through reviewing the work of international women’s movements and their impact on China. Over this century, we must recognise that through all the reforming interests of both missionary women and internat...
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written by Sarah Paddle, fl. 2009 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 11 page(s)
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This collection of primary sources allows researchers to investigate Western Women in China from 1840-1950, through reviewing the work of international women’s movements and their impact on China. Over this century, we must recognise that through all the reforming interests of both missionary women and international social reformers, China was still orientalised as the “other,” for whom westerners claimed the right to speak. The voices of...
This collection of primary sources allows researchers to investigate Western Women in China from 1840-1950, through reviewing the work of international women’s movements and their impact on China. Over this century, we must recognise that through all the reforming interests of both missionary women and international social reformers, China was still orientalised as the “other,” for whom westerners claimed the right to speak. The voices of western women recorded in this selection often constructed the Chinese woman in terms of dominated subjectivity and non-subject status in society. Through a frame of third world difference, through Western eyes, as Mohanty has put it, the Chinese woman was located as always already in tradition, or as tradition itself. By comparison, Western woman occupied the right to speak on behalf of the Chinese woman, as they were freed by their travel and the space they inhabited away from home, yet still they spoke in languages constructed by their own racialised histories.
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Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Sarah Paddle, fl. 2009
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Alexander Street
Topic / Theme
Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Indigenous Women, Women and Religion, Post Colonial and Transnationalism, Social Movements and Indigenous Women, Indigenous Women and Missionaries, Relations with Imperial Women, Chinese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Women and the Anti-Apartheid Movement
written by Teresa Barnes (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 15 page(s)
In preserving the voices and perspectives of a diverse set of women activists from a crucial moment in South African history, this cluster is an example of the best of feminist women’s history. It is like a kind of time capsule, useful for anyone who would like to get a bitter but bracing taste of the determinat...
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written by Teresa Barnes (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 15 page(s)
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In preserving the voices and perspectives of a diverse set of women activists from a crucial moment in South African history, this cluster is an example of the best of feminist women’s history. It is like a kind of time capsule, useful for anyone who would like to get a bitter but bracing taste of the determination and the power with which South African women collectively confronted racial supremacy and gender inequality.
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Teresa Barnes
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Diana Russell, 1938-, Winnie Madikizela Mandela, 1934-
Topic / Theme
Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994, Political and Human Rights, Indigenous Women, Apartheid in South Africa, Social and Political Leadership, Social Movements and Indigenous Women, South Africans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Women as Missionaries in Western India: A Case Study
written by Ann Taylor Allen, fl. 1974-2012 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2016), 30 page(s)
Some historians portray missionaries as agents of empire who imposed an alien religion and culture upon oppressed populations. An alternative view, however, connects mission work with reform movements in such areas as education, health, child welfare, and the status and rights of women—initiatives that were by n...
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written by Ann Taylor Allen, fl. 1974-2012 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2016), 30 page(s)
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Some historians portray missionaries as agents of empire who imposed an alien religion and culture upon oppressed populations. An alternative view, however, connects mission work with reform movements in such areas as education, health, child welfare, and the status and rights of women—initiatives that were by no means unique to Christians or Westerners, but found support among people of many ethnicities and religions across the globe.
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Ann Taylor Allen, fl. 1974-2012
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
David Benjamin Updegraff, 1878-1953, Melanie Updegraff, 1886-1973, Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948
Topic / Theme
Women and Religion, Indigenous Women, Women and Education, Women Missionaries, Social Movements and Indigenous Women, Access to Primary Education/Literacy, Indians (Asian), Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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