The Political Perils in 1957

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Zheng
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Deng Xiaoping ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Third ◽  
Great Leap ◽  
Women’S Liberation

The work report of the ACWF at the third National Women’s Congress presented a conservative theme of “two diligences” for women-work, an obvious reversion from its previous commitment to equality between men and women and women’s liberation.Investigating the puzzle in the context of the Anti-Rightest Campaign in 1957, this chapter exposes ferocious gender contentions in the Party Central and a moment of grave crisis that threatened the existence of the ACWF. Informal power of the ACWF top leaders was highlighted in the examination of this struggle when they obtained the support of Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi,which enabled the survival of the ACWF. The ACWF’s rapid switch of its position in the Great Leap Forwardrevealed both state feminists’ persistent feminist commitment to women’s liberation and their differentemphases on practical gender interestsandstrategicgender interests.

Shifts in Fear of Success in Men and Women from 1968 to 1987

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darhl M. Pedersen ◽  
Tracy Conlin
Keyword(s):  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Fear Of Success ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
The Impact

A follow-up study on feat of success was completed 19 years after Horner collected her data in 1968. It was hypothesized that cultural changes relating to women's liberation would result in fewer women and more men exhibiting fear of success compared to Horner's findings. 25 men and 25 women were tested using Horner's procedures to facilitate comparisons. A higher percentage of men exhibited fear of success than Horner reported; however, the percentage of women remained about the same. Apparently, the impact of societal changes on men has been greater than on women.

More on the Political Economy of Women's Liberation

1970 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickey Rowntree ◽  
John Rowntree
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Women’S Liberation

"She Was My Kind of Scientist"

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Lise Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Family Household ◽  
The North ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Unpaid Labor ◽  
Lightning Bolt ◽  
The Family

In the late 1960s, the North American women's liberation movement was reaching a highpoint of activity, its militancy complemented by a flourishing literature. This was the environment into which Margaret Benston's 1969 Monthly Review essay, "The Political Economy of Women's Liberation," struck like a lightning bolt. At the time, many in the movement were describing women's situation in terms of sociological roles, functions, and structures—reproduction, socialization, psychology, sexuality, and the like. In contrast, Benston proposed an analysis in Marxist terms of women's unpaid labor in the family household. In this way, she definitively shifted the framework for discussion of women's oppression onto the terrain of Marxist political economy.

The Liberation of Islamic Letters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Anne McLarney
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Islamic Ethics ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
Intellectual Elites

This chapter focuses on Bint al-Shatiʾ, whose writings crystallize some of the most salient themes of the modern Islamic public sphere and illustrate the power of adab in formulating modern Islamic ethics and politics. A public intellectual, political activist, chaired professor, journalist, and adēba (woman of letters), Bint al-Shatiʾ synthesized discursive trends for a broad spectrum of readers that included both intellectual elites and popular audiences. Her Omdurman lectures reinterpreted the concept of “women's liberation” for an Islamic politics, nearly seventy years after Qasim Amin first ventured his interpretation of “women's liberation” in Islam in 1899. Like Amin, she has unmitigated faith in the power of education and knowledge—scientific, Islamic, and literary—to elevate the political community from its political chains. But she also surpasses Amin in imagining the force of women's literary voices in transforming the umma, just as she surpassed him in literary accomplishment, stature, and recognition.

Failing the Masses in Syria

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
Asaad Alsaleh
Keyword(s):  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Political Control ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Syrian Revolution ◽  
The Masses

In this chapter, Asaad Alsaleh discusses the problematic and double-sided role of the public intellectual Buthaina Shabaan in the Syrian revolution. Shabaan was a writer, professor, and advocate of the Syrian regime who spurred the populace to embrace the possibility of democratic reform. However, this feminist intellectual accepted—even embraced—the political control employed by the Assad authoritarian one-party regime, which used her as a representative of its supposed progressive and women’s liberation agendas.

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