Innocence and Victimhood: Gender, Nation, and Women's Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. By Elissa Helms. Critical Human Rights. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. xxi, 325 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $26.95, paper.

Slavic Review ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-195
Author(s):  
Elena Gapova
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
University Of Wisconsin

Women and Politics in Chile

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 804-805
Author(s):  
Patricia Richards
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Women And Politics ◽  
Economic Survival ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Elected Office

Women and Politics in Chile, Susan Franceschet, Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005, pp. x, 203.The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973–1990) was marked by a high degree of women's activism focusing on human rights, economic survival and feminism. Many women expected that their active role during the dictatorship would lead to a new way of doing politics and greater inclusion of women in the political process once democracy was restored. But despite the recent election of Michelle Bachelet as president of Chile, Chilean women continue to be vastly underrepresented in political party leadership and elected office. In this clearly written and cogently argued book, Susan Franceschet addresses the important question of the marginalization of women from Chilean politics under democracy.

scholarly journals Gender Equality in and on Tibetan Buddhist Nuns’ Terms

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 543
Author(s):  
Padma’tsho (Baimacuo) ◽  
Sarah Jacoby
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Tibetan Buddhist ◽  
Buddhist Nuns ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Liberal Rights

Gender equality and feminism are often cast as concepts foreign to the Tibetan cultural region, even as scholarship exploring alliances between Buddhism and feminism has grown. Critics of this scholarship contend that it superimposes liberal discourses of freedom, egalitarianism, and human rights onto Asian Buddhist women’s lives, without regard for whether/how these accord with women’s self-understandings. This article aims to serve as a corrective to this omission by engaging transnational feminist approaches to listen carefully to the rhetoric, aims, and interpretations of a group of Tibetan nuns who are redefining women’s activism in and on their own terms. We conclude that their terms are not derivative of foreign or secular liberal rights-based theories, but rather outgrowths of Buddhist principles taking on a new shape in modern Tibet.

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