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Informationen zum Autor Maja Mikula is Senior Lecturer and coordinator of the Italy major and the Italian Language and Culture subjects in the International Studies program at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, national identity, the new media and popular culture. Klappentext This volume presents original and state-of-the-art research on women's movements in Asia, Europe and Latin America, contrasting and comparing women's activities and conditions in diverse social and political contexts. Zusammenfassung This volume presents original and state-of-the-art research on women's movements in Asia, Europe and Latin America, contrasting and comparing women's activities and conditions in diverse social and political contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Patriarchy and Resistance in Singapore 2. Bourgeois Women and Communist Revolutionaries? De-revoltionizing the Chinese Women's Suffrage Movement 3. Activities of the Japanese Patriotic Ladies Association (Aikoku Fujinkai) 4. 'I Spit on Your Stone': Women Against Rape and the Cult of Anzac in Australia 5. Embrace or Resist: Women and Collective Identification in Croatia and Former Yugoslavia Since World War II 6. Grassroots Women's Activism in Russia 1992-1996: Surviving Social Change Together? 7. 'To Struggle for Freedom is Our Responsibility': Tibetan Nuns in the Chinese State 8. The Militant Nun as Political Activist and Feminist in Martial Law Phillippines 9. 'Harem Women Do Seem The Happiest To Me': Novel Women, Fictions of Domesticity and National Development in India 10. 'Women, Don't Interfere With Us; We Are Fighting For Poland': Polish Mothers and Transgressive Others 11. Germany - Myth and Apologia in Christa Wolf's Novel 12. A Shadowy Sequence : Chicana Textual / Sexual Reinventions of Sor Juana.
