Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
AuthorKumari Jayawardena
SubjectPostcolonial feminism
PublisherZed Books
Publication date
1986
ISBN978-0-86232-265-6

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World is a 1986 publication by Sri Lankan author Kumari Jayawardena. Kumari's book has been described as a feminist classic and widely used in gender and women's studies to date as a primer of Third-World Feminism.[1]

The book follows case studies about women at the front line of feminist, socialist and political movements across eleven countries in the East: Egypt, Iran, Turkey, India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia,[2] that share a history of direct assault and hostility by imperialist regimes interested in subjugating their territory and indirect exploitation in instilling the enslavement schemes of these regimes. These case studies are set against a background of growing nationalism – liberation struggles of the Eastern world to free themselves of their colonizers, which created a common struggle for emancipation between feminist and nationalist movements.

  1. ^ Srinivasan, Meera (2017-01-01). "There was a gap about our part of the world". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  2. ^ Jayawardena, Kumari (2020-09-30). "History of women's movements in Asia and the Middle East". Verso Blog. Retrieved 2020-10-02.

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