Carrie Hamilton
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719075452
- eISBN:
- 9781781700754
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719075452.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This chapter focuses on those women who were directly active in Euskadi ta Askatasuna (ETA), including in the military front, from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. It analyses the gender roles, ...
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This chapter focuses on those women who were directly active in Euskadi ta Askatasuna (ETA), including in the military front, from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. It analyses the gender roles, relationships and politics inside ETA, as well as evidence of women's changing activities and media representations of female ‘terrorists’ during this period. The interview with two female activists from different generations reveals ways in which these activists constructed personal and political identities within a set of ideas in which militarism was associated with masculinity and pacifism with maternity.Less
This chapter focuses on those women who were directly active in Euskadi ta Askatasuna (ETA), including in the military front, from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. It analyses the gender roles, relationships and politics inside ETA, as well as evidence of women's changing activities and media representations of female ‘terrorists’ during this period. The interview with two female activists from different generations reveals ways in which these activists constructed personal and political identities within a set of ideas in which militarism was associated with masculinity and pacifism with maternity.
Michelle M. Nickerson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691121840
- eISBN:
- 9781400842209
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691121840.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The concluding chapter examines how housewife populist ideology influenced a new generation of conservative female activists, and questions how the history of women on the right might bring useful ...
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The concluding chapter examines how housewife populist ideology influenced a new generation of conservative female activists, and questions how the history of women on the right might bring useful scrutiny to the categories and assumptions that frame U.S. feminist and political history. It argues that housewife populism continues to shape conservative beliefs about women's importance to society and American politics, as the career of Alaska's former governor, Sarah Palin, illustrates. After Barack Obama won the election in 2008, Palin's populist style carried over into the conservative Tea Party movement, an alliance of organizations and bloggers that emerged in opposition to government-sponsored economic stimulus, health-care reform, and numerous other grievances directed against the Democratic administration and Congress. The endurance of housewife populist ideology demands that scholars pay closer attention to the ambiguities and paradoxes that conservative women have managed to reconcile and marshal to their own interests, in much the way that suffragists and other skillful political actors in American history achieved their goals.Less
The concluding chapter examines how housewife populist ideology influenced a new generation of conservative female activists, and questions how the history of women on the right might bring useful scrutiny to the categories and assumptions that frame U.S. feminist and political history. It argues that housewife populism continues to shape conservative beliefs about women's importance to society and American politics, as the career of Alaska's former governor, Sarah Palin, illustrates. After Barack Obama won the election in 2008, Palin's populist style carried over into the conservative Tea Party movement, an alliance of organizations and bloggers that emerged in opposition to government-sponsored economic stimulus, health-care reform, and numerous other grievances directed against the Democratic administration and Congress. The endurance of housewife populist ideology demands that scholars pay closer attention to the ambiguities and paradoxes that conservative women have managed to reconcile and marshal to their own interests, in much the way that suffragists and other skillful political actors in American history achieved their goals.
Keely Stauter-Halsted
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801454196
- eISBN:
- 9781501701665
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801454196.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter discusses the “Alfonse Pogrom” of May 1905, which gives rise to other antiprostitution initiatives that were led by female activists. During the pogrom, throngs of angry workers stormed ...
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This chapter discusses the “Alfonse Pogrom” of May 1905, which gives rise to other antiprostitution initiatives that were led by female activists. During the pogrom, throngs of angry workers stormed the city's red-light district, attacking Jewish-run bordellos, smashing furniture, tearing hinges off doors, and shattering windows. The violence and destruction continued for two days and by the time police restored order forty people, including many owners of public houses, lay wounded or dying. This event marked a turning point in popular attitudes toward commercial sex, sparking increased public awareness of prostitution across Poland. In particular, female activists established philanthropic, charitable, as well as educational initiatives to combat commercial sex.Less
This chapter discusses the “Alfonse Pogrom” of May 1905, which gives rise to other antiprostitution initiatives that were led by female activists. During the pogrom, throngs of angry workers stormed the city's red-light district, attacking Jewish-run bordellos, smashing furniture, tearing hinges off doors, and shattering windows. The violence and destruction continued for two days and by the time police restored order forty people, including many owners of public houses, lay wounded or dying. This event marked a turning point in popular attitudes toward commercial sex, sparking increased public awareness of prostitution across Poland. In particular, female activists established philanthropic, charitable, as well as educational initiatives to combat commercial sex.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804776912
- eISBN:
- 9780804783460
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804776912.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter addresses the female activists and legislators who worked locally and nationally to pass laws against prostitution. The Prostitution Prevention Law aimed to prevent a climate of ...
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This chapter addresses the female activists and legislators who worked locally and nationally to pass laws against prostitution. The Prostitution Prevention Law aimed to prevent a climate of prostitution. The fight to pass a national law against prostitution shows both the potential and the disappointing reality of female politicians' power in the early postwar period. The road to the legal abolition of prostitution had begun in the late nineteenth century. Japan did little to stop domestic trafficking, instead concentrated on the international trade, especially of European women. The promise of rehabilitation would prove crucial in solidifying a broad coalition of women and Christian Diet members behind a national anti-prostitution law. It is noted that Japan's failure to outlaw prostitution was an international embarrassment. Sex work had become objectionable only when the Allies occupying their country had deregulated it.Less
This chapter addresses the female activists and legislators who worked locally and nationally to pass laws against prostitution. The Prostitution Prevention Law aimed to prevent a climate of prostitution. The fight to pass a national law against prostitution shows both the potential and the disappointing reality of female politicians' power in the early postwar period. The road to the legal abolition of prostitution had begun in the late nineteenth century. Japan did little to stop domestic trafficking, instead concentrated on the international trade, especially of European women. The promise of rehabilitation would prove crucial in solidifying a broad coalition of women and Christian Diet members behind a national anti-prostitution law. It is noted that Japan's failure to outlaw prostitution was an international embarrassment. Sex work had become objectionable only when the Allies occupying their country had deregulated it.
Laura Schwartz
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780719085826
- eISBN:
- 9781781704936
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719085826.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This book studies a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement, and looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of ...
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This book studies a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement, and looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought, but have, until now, been almost entirely passed over in the historiography of the Victorian and Edwardian women's movement. In uncovering an important tradition of freethinking feminism, the book reveals an ongoing radical and free love current connecting Owenite feminism with the more ‘respectable’ post-1850 women's movement and the ‘New Women’ of the early twentieth century.Less
This book studies a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement, and looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought, but have, until now, been almost entirely passed over in the historiography of the Victorian and Edwardian women's movement. In uncovering an important tradition of freethinking feminism, the book reveals an ongoing radical and free love current connecting Owenite feminism with the more ‘respectable’ post-1850 women's movement and the ‘New Women’ of the early twentieth century.
Kathlene McDonald
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617033018
- eISBN:
- 9781617033025
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617033018.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter focuses on Salt of the Earth, a film produced by a group of blacklisted filmmakers based on the true story of a sixteen-month strike against Empire Zinc. The film’s screenplay emphasized ...
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This chapter focuses on Salt of the Earth, a film produced by a group of blacklisted filmmakers based on the true story of a sixteen-month strike against Empire Zinc. The film’s screenplay emphasized the essential role that women played in the strike; it showed female community members insisting that domestic issues be included in the strike demands and how they assumed leadership roles in the union. By putting a strong female activist at the center of the film, it not only showed the importance of women’s role in the mineworkers’ struggle, but also challenged the dominant image of women in 1950s mainstream culture as the housewife at the center of a nuclear family. In an era dominated by films depicting Communism as an evil and marriage as the ultimate goal for women, Salt of the Earth was a cultural triumph.Less
This chapter focuses on Salt of the Earth, a film produced by a group of blacklisted filmmakers based on the true story of a sixteen-month strike against Empire Zinc. The film’s screenplay emphasized the essential role that women played in the strike; it showed female community members insisting that domestic issues be included in the strike demands and how they assumed leadership roles in the union. By putting a strong female activist at the center of the film, it not only showed the importance of women’s role in the mineworkers’ struggle, but also challenged the dominant image of women in 1950s mainstream culture as the housewife at the center of a nuclear family. In an era dominated by films depicting Communism as an evil and marriage as the ultimate goal for women, Salt of the Earth was a cultural triumph.
Kathlene McDonald
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617033018
- eISBN:
- 9781617033025
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617033018.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter aims to examine the literary career of Martha Dodd, which has been obscured by the controversy surrounding her. In her novels and short stories, Dodd uses female activists to challenge ...
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This chapter aims to examine the literary career of Martha Dodd, which has been obscured by the controversy surrounding her. In her novels and short stories, Dodd uses female activists to challenge some of the conventions about femininity in the immediate postwar era. Her work is distinctive among novels from this period because she presents women not simply as domestic goddesses or morality police, but as actors in their own right. The chapter establishes the connections between Dodd’s writings and an emergent Left feminism during World War II and the postwar era. Many of Dodd’s writings reflect the changes in the Communist Party’s approach to the “Woman Question” during World War II and the postwar era. A Left feminist perspective is reflected in most of her work.Less
This chapter aims to examine the literary career of Martha Dodd, which has been obscured by the controversy surrounding her. In her novels and short stories, Dodd uses female activists to challenge some of the conventions about femininity in the immediate postwar era. Her work is distinctive among novels from this period because she presents women not simply as domestic goddesses or morality police, but as actors in their own right. The chapter establishes the connections between Dodd’s writings and an emergent Left feminism during World War II and the postwar era. Many of Dodd’s writings reflect the changes in the Communist Party’s approach to the “Woman Question” during World War II and the postwar era. A Left feminist perspective is reflected in most of her work.
