Global Feminisms Since 1945

Edited by Bonnie G. Smith

Price: $43.95

ISBN: 978-0-415-18491-5
Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
Published by: Routledge
Publication Date: 29th June 2000
Pages: 336

About the Book

Global Feminisms Since 1945 is an historical introduction to the issues of contemporary feminism, with a truly global perspective. This book is a concise anthology considering the similarities and differences between feminisms in West and East, North and South, and highlighting class, racial, ethnic and imperial tensions and claims in the twentieth century. The book analyses the roots, development and, in some cases, the conclusions of feminisms and how they have interacted.
From the European and American feminist movements to those in the ex-Soviet Union and women's rights groups in Africa and East Asia,Global Feminisms Since 1945 examines the key economic, technological, sexual, reproductive, ecological and political debates.

About the Author(s)

Bonnie G Smith is Professsor of History at Rutgers University and her many books include Changing Lives (Penguin, 1989), The Gender of History (Harvard, 1998) and Confessions of a Concierge (Yale, 1985)