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Importing/applying western feminism

Women's Studies International Forum, 1999
Abstract This article describes a 4-year linkage project (1992–1996) between the University of Indonesia and the Memorial University, Canada, to establish a Women's Studies Programme at the University of Indonesia. The proposal of the Canadian International Development Agency (main Canadian government funding agency) contained the inherent assumption
Saparinah Sadli, Marilyn Porter
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Feminism Across Borders: A Hungarian Adaptation of Western Feminism

Sex Roles, 2005
A grounded theory model of feminist-activist identity development was constructed from semistructured interviews with volunteers of the first Women’s Rights Association (NANE) in Hungary. This article focuses on NANE volunteers’ feminist identity development, which emerged through interpersonal solidarity with Western women; the development of self ...
Susan S. Mathews, Sharon G. Horne, Heidi M. Levitt   +2 more
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Anti‐feminism in western Europe 1975–1987

West European Politics, 1992
This study traces the development of anti‐feminist attitude trends in Western Europe from 1975–1987. It focuses in particular on the sources of and changes in opposition to women's participation in politics by noting the percentages of Eurobarometer survey respondents who agreed in 1975, 1983, and 1987 that ‘politics should be left to men’.
April Morgan, Clyde Wilcox
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Egyptian Feminism's Changing Relationship with Western Feminism

2014
This research in progress examines how Egyptian feminism interacts with Western feminism. I hypothesized that a majority of Egyptian feminists would view Western feminism as a hindrance to "indigenous" feminism and therefore resist it. For example, some might feel that Western feminism places Egyptian women in a "victims" category, and therefore ...
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Re-orienting Western Feminisms

1997
The agenda of contemporary western feminism focuses on equal participation in work and education, reproductive rights, and sexual freedom. But what does feminism mean to the women of rural India who work someone else's fields, young Thai girls in the sex industry in Bangkok, or Filipino maids working for wealthy women in Hong Kong?
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Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran

2023
<p>Nima Naghibi makes powerful connections among feminism, imperialism, and the discourses of global sisterhood. Naghibi investigates topics including the state-sponsored Women’s Organization of Iran and the involvement of feminists such as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem in the Iranian feminism movement.
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The Western Gaze and African Feminism

This chapter serves as a mechanism of recognizing and acknowledging the illegitimacy of historic and traditional western approaches to narratives of African feminist epistemology. These approaches have engendered lenses of perspective which are irrefutably skewed by colonialism and whose address is warranted in ensuring both a means of learning about ...
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Contemporary Western European Feminism

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1994
Mary Hawkesworth, Gisela Kaplan
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Western Feminism Before and After October 7

SSRN Electronic Journal
In this interview, I provide my view on the state of Western feminism before and after the assault on Gaza. The interview includes discussion of the various strands of emergent feminisms in the West and some of their offshoots as they appear in Palestine in the context of Israeli colonialism and resistance to it.
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Asian Perspectives on Western Feminism: Interrogating the Assumptions

China Report, 2002
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