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International Women´s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History
Jocelyn Olcott
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Hardback. A rich narrative of the 1975 International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City, where the idiom "sisterhood is powerful" was fractured by global feminism. Num Pages: 344 pages, 35 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
The United Nations declared 1975 the International Women's Year, a time to focus on the issues facing all members of the female sex on a global level. The capstone event of the year was the International Women's Year conference, dubbed the greatest consciousness-raising event in history, held in Mexico City that summer. It attracted delegates from 133 countries, in addition to non-governmental organizations and press. The attendees included the famous-Betty Friedan, Jane Fonda, Angela Davis, and Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, among them; the royal-Princess Pahlavi of Iran; the politically connected-Leah Rabin of Israel, Sri ... Read more
The United Nations declared 1975 the International Women's Year, a time to focus on the issues facing all members of the female sex on a global level. The capstone event of the year was the International Women's Year conference, dubbed the greatest consciousness-raising event in history, held in Mexico City that summer. It attracted delegates from 133 countries, in addition to non-governmental organizations and press. The attendees included the famous-Betty Friedan, Jane Fonda, Angela Davis, and Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, among them; the royal-Princess Pahlavi of Iran; the politically connected-Leah Rabin of Israel, Sri ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195327687
SKU
V9780195327687
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About Jocelyn Olcott
Jocelyn Olcott is Associate Professor of History at Duke University and the author of Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico. She is the editor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico and a co-editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review.
Reviews for International Women´s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History
The book's concise and accessible prose makes it a must-read for anyone interested in feminist or gender studies, while the various conceptual bridges it constructs across several fields should make it of particular interest to scholars working on the Non-Aligned Movement, NGO organizations, and the Cold War.
DAVID YEE, doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the University of Turku, Finland, ... Read more
DAVID YEE, doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the University of Turku, Finland, ... Read more