“Precondition for Victory”: Women’s Liberation in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31
Author(s):  
Stephanie Urdang
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
Similar Vein

A striking aspect of the on-going revolution in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau is the insistence on the need for the liberation of women to be an explicit and integral part of that process. “Liberation of women,” reads an oft-quoted statement of Samora Machel, FRELIMO president, “is a fundamental necessity for our revolution; a guarantee of its continuity and a precondition for victory.” In a similar vein, Amilcar Cabral, assassinated leader of PAIGC, used to state firmly that their revolution could not be successful unless it ensured the full participation of women, or, “In Guinea-Bissau we say that women are fighting two colonialisms; one against the Portuguese and the other against men.”

The Other Communards

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-36
Author(s):  
Faith Hillis
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
New Model ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
New Institutions

This chapter examines the first decades of emigration in the 1830s and 1840s, in which Polish patriots and Russian intellectuals predominated. It then turns to the first Russian colony, which formed in Zurich in the 1860s thanks to the arrival of several hundred students from the Russian empire. It shows how residents of the Zurich colony transformed the abstract, utopian ideas of the first generation of exiles into concrete praxis expressed through experiments in collective living, practices of women’s liberation and ethnic inclusion, and the creation of new institutions such as libraries. The new model of revolutionary living that emerged in Zurich would become a template for future exile experiments and would profoundly affect revolutionary culture at large.

Feminist Historical Writing in Postrevolutionary Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Alborz Ghandehari
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Women’S Liberation

Abstract This article argues that Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s Missing Soluch and Parinoush Saniee’s My Share are landmark works of feminist historical writing in Iran that disrupt official narratives in the country regarding the revolutionary project. Despite the different positions Dowlatabadi and Saniee occupy in the Persian literary field, both Missing Soluch and My Share reflect the ethos of the 1979 Revolution in some way, one its euphoric beginning and the other its complicated aftermath. The article argues that both novelists pursue an innovative genre of historical writing by contesting official historical-masculinist narratives of their time. Missing Soluch offers readers a working-class feminist politics on the eve of revolutionary upheaval. My Share constructs a feminist politics critical of the postrevolutionary nation’s betrayal of Iranian women’s liberation despite women’s critical participation in the 1979 Revolution. Dowlatabadi anticipates the tensions between gender politics and the postrevolutionary nation, while Saniee makes that tension explicit as part of a feminist critique of historical erasure.

“Find Their Place and Fall in Line”: The Revisioning of Women's Work in Herland and Emma McChesney & Co.

Prospects ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 39-87
Author(s):  
William Gleason
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
American Women ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Children’S Play

In 1910, at the outset of a turbulent American decade, Annie P. Hillis reviewed the liberating social advances being made by women during the Progressive Era. Writing in the Outlook, Hillis declared that the days of “idyllic, helpless femininity” were passing. As evidence she adduced the “six-foot captain of the basket-ball team” — who “laughs outright at the slender youth who would protect her” — and the “business woman,” who “can earn her own support and would be beholden to no one.” In both adult work and children's play, she claimed, American women were achieving “independence and equality with the other sex.” But in practically her next breath Hillis makes clear that women's liberation might have reached - or perhaps surpassed - its natural limits. Protesting that it is “too soon to predict the future” even as she reaffirms progressivism's fundamental ideology (“We are in a world where there is a definite purpose running through all events, where there is a definite march forward”), Hillis retreats to a distinctly unliberating position: it is for contemporary women, she insists, to “find their place and fall in line.”

Personality Characteristics of Women's Liberation Activists as Measured by the Mmpi

1975 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold F. O'Neil ◽  
Mary Teague ◽  
Robert E. Lushene ◽  
Sue Davenport
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Women's Liberation Movement ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Women’S Liberation Movement

The study was designed to explore the validity of notions held by the women's liberation movement regarding personality characteristics of movement activists. Two groups, one composed of 19 college student activists in the women's liberation movement and the other composed of 34 female college students, were given a computer-administered MMPI. The results do not support the imputations that these college student activists in the women's liberation movement exhibit deviant personality characteristics or that they are more maladjusted than control subjects.

scholarly journals Is Mary Important for Herself or for Being the Mother of Christ in the Holy Qur’an?

1970 ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
Hosn Abboud
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Political Roles ◽  
The Family ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
Islam And Christianity ◽  
The One

Christian interest in the exalted place of Mary in the Holy Qur’an derives from its resonance with discourse on women issues on the one hand and the centrality of Mary in the great encounter between Islam and Christianity on the other. Discourse on women issues – especially its feminist current – deals with the religious notion of women’s liberation (Ahmad, 1992). It undertakes a re-reading of the central foundational texts (the Bible in its two testaments and the Holy Qur’an), especially those that valorize women and their human, social, and political roles. This feminist discourse criticizes evaluating women only by their relationship to men as wives, to children as mothers and to parents as daughters, that is, by their relationships to the family structure instead of by who they are in themselves.

Women's Liberation: A Catholic View

1971 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Bowers
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
The World ◽  
New Perspective

The women's revolution is “the final revolution of all, based on women's potential to participate actively in the world as neither oppressor nor oppressed. Such a new perspective in the world as it exists today would be welcome salvation. Over and above their capacity for motherhood, women have a similar capacity to meet the world in a gentler way, one which would take into consideration the need always to respect the other and allow the other to grow.”

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