Table of Contents

I. Western Paradigms: France, Russia, the United States.- 1. Olympe de Gouges and the French Revolution: The Construction of Gender as Critique.- 2. Louise Michel and the Paris Commune of 1871: The Performance of Revolution.- 3. Medicine and Politics: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Paris Commune.- 4. Women and the Russian Revolution.- 5. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Reform or Revolution?.- 6. Women in the Welfare Rights Movement: Reform or Revolution?.- II. Village Traditions/Modern Situations: Africa, Iran, India.- 7. The Women’s War of 1929 in South-Eastern Nigeria.- 8. Anlu Remembered: The Kom Women’s Rebellion of 1958–61.- 9. Black Women Freedom Fighters in South Africa and in the United States: A Comparative Analysis.- 10. Fighting on all Fronts: Gendered Spaces, Ethnic Boundaries, and the Nigerian Civil War.- 11. Women and the Iranian Revolution: A Village Case Study.- 12. Indigenous Feminism, Tribal Radicalism and Grassroots Mobilization in India.- III. Socialist Transformations in Latin America and Cuba.- 13. Women in Revolutionary Movements: Changing Patterns of Latin American Guerrilla Struggle.- 14. Women and Political Violence in Contemporary Peru.- 15. Discursive Tensions and the Subject of Discourse in I, Rigoberta Menchú.- 16. The Political-Libidinal Economy of the Socialist Female Body: Flesh and Blood, Work and Ideas.- IV. Women in China from Mao to Market Reforms.- 17. Reflections on Women in the Chinese Revolution.- 18. The Other Goes to Market: Gender, Sexuality, and Unruliness in Post-Mao China.- V. By Way of Conclusion.- 19. Community and Resistance in Women’s Political Cultures.- Selected Bibliography.- Index of Titles.- Index of Authors.- Index of Names.