1st Edition
Women, Activism and Social Change Stretching Boundaries
Introduction 1. Patriarchy and Resistance in Singapore (Stephanie Lawson) 2. Bourgeois Women and Communist Revolutionaries? De-revoltionizing the Chinese Women's Suffrage Movement (Louise Edwards) 3. Activities of the Japanese Patriotic Ladies Association (Aikoku Fujinkai) (Keiko Morita). 4. 'I Spit on Your Stone': Women Against Rape and the Cult of Anzac in Australia (Catriona Elder) 5. Embrace or Resist: Women and Collective Identification in Croatia and Former Yugoslavia Since World War II (Maja Mikula) 6. Grassroots Women's Activism in Russia 1992-1996: Surviving Social Change Together? (Rebecca Kay) 7. 'To Struggle for Freedom is Our Responsibility': Tibetan Nuns in the Chinese State (Susette Cooke). 8. The Militant Nun as Political Activist and Feminist in Martial Law Phillippines (Mina Roces) 9. 'Harem Women Do Seem The Happiest To Me': Novel Women, Fictions of Domesticity and National Development in India (Devleena Ghosh) 10. 'Women, Don't Interfere With Us; We Are Fighting For Poland': Polish Mothers and Transgressive Others (Elzbieta H. Oleksy) 11. Germany - Myth and Apologia in Christa Wolf's Novel (Yixü Lü) 12. A Shadowy Sequence : Chicana Textual / Sexual Reinventions of Sor Juana (Paul Allatson)
Biography
Maja Mikula is Senior Lecturer and coordinator of the Italy major and the Italian Language and Culture subjects in the International Studies program at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, national identity, the new media and popular culture.
