International Women''s Year - The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History

A rich narrative of the 1975 International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City, where the idiom "sisterhood is powerful" was fractured by global feminism.

Sommario

• Acknowledgments


• Glossary of Acronyms


• Dramatis Personae


• Introduction


• Act I: International Women's Year Deserves No Less


• Scene One: WINGO Politics


• Scene Two: Choosing Battles in the Cold War


• Scene Three: Getting to Mexico City


• Scene Four: Follow the Money


• Act II: The Conference


• Scene Five: Opening Acts


• Scene Six: Inauguration Day


• Scene Seven: "Betty Friedan vs. the Third World"


• Scene Eight: "This Is an Illegitimate Delegation"


• Scene Nine: "Other Kinds of Problems"


• Scene Ten: The Politics of Peace


• Scene Eleven: The First Rule of Fight Club


• Scene Twelve: Coming Out Party


• Scene Thirteen: Chaos in the Tribune


• Scene Fourteen: Counter-congresses


• Scene Fifteen: ¡Domitila a la Tribuna!


• Scene Sixteen: The Final Push


• Scene Seventeen: Unceremonious Closing


• Act III: Legacies


• Scene Eighteen: Beyond Mexico City


• Notes on Sources, Theories, and Methods


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

Info autore

Jocelyn Olcott is Associate Professor of History at Duke University and the author of Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico. She is the editor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico and a co-editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review.

Riassunto

A rich narrative of the 1975 International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City, where the idiom "sisterhood is powerful" was fractured by global feminism.

Testo aggiuntivo

The book's concise and accessible prose makes it a must-read for anyone interested in feminist or gender studies, while the various conceptual bridges it constructs across several fields should make it of particular interest to scholars working on the Non-Aligned Movement, NGO organizations, and the Cold War.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jocelyn Olcott, Jocelyn (Associate Professor of History Olcott
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780195327687
• ISBN: 978-0-19-532768-7
• Pagine: 352
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia della cultura; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, HISTORY / Women, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, Feminism & feminist theory, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, c 1970 to c 1980