Table of Contents

Preface 1. Intoduction: Subversive Women and their Movements - Saskia Wieringa 2. Methods and Power: Epistemological and Methodological Aspects of a Feminist Research Project - Saskia Wieringa 3. Women's Movement in Peru: The Early Years - Maritza Villavicencio 4. Women's Movement in Peru: Rebellion into Action - Virginia Vargas 5. The Early Women's Movement in Trinidad and Tobago, 1900-1937 - Rhoda Reddock 6. Women and Colonial Policy in Jamaica after the 1938 Uprising - Joan French 7. An Experiment in Popular Theatre and Women's History: Ida Revolt inna Jonkonnu Stylee - Honor Ford-Smith 8. Somalia: Poetry as Resistance Against Colonialism and Patriarchy - Dahabo Farah Hasan, Amina H. Adan and Amina Mohamoud Warsame 9. The State and the Sudanese Women's Union, 1971-1983: A Case Study - Tomadur Ahmed Khalid 10. The Crisis in the Sudanese Women's Movement - Zeinab Bashir El Bakri 11. Masses of Women, But Where is the Movement? A Case Study of the Anti-Price Rise Movement in Bombay, 1972-1975 - Nandita Gandhi 12. Deterrents in Organizing Women Tobacco Workers in Nipani - Chhaya Datar 13. Matrilinearity and Women's Interests: The Minangkabau of Western Sumatra - Saskia Wieringa

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This anthology of feminist writing demonstrates the diversity of women's movements worldwide.

About the Author

Saskia Wieringa lectures on women and development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.