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Women’s International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War

Yulia Gradskova
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gender equality
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Global South
Independent Women
International Women's Year
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Moscow Archive
NGO Forum
postcolonial theory
social rights
socialist propaganda analysis
Soviet Representatives
Soviet state
Soviet union politics
Soviet Women
Soviet women's history
State Socialist Countries
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transnational feminism
Transnational women's activism
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780367504786
  • Weight: 480g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Aug 2022
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

This book examines the role of the Women's International Defense Federation (WIDF) in transnational women’s activism in the context of the Cold War, and in connection to the rights of women from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Combining a global history and postcolonial theory approach, this monograph shines light on an underrepresented organisation and its important role in the Cold War, Twentieth Century women's rights and Soviet history. Questioning whether the organization acted for women’s causes or whether it was merely a Cold War political instrument, the book analyzes and problematizes the place that the WIDF had in the politics of the Soviet Union, examining the ideology and politics of the WIDF and state socialist propaganda regarding women's equality and rights. Using Soviet archival documents of the organizations, the book offers a new perspective on the complexities of the development of global women’s rights movement divided by the Cold War confrontations.

This is an important study suitable for students and researchers in Women's and Gender History, Eastern European History and Gender Studies.

About Yulia Gradskova
Yulia Gradskova is Associate Professor in History and works at the Department of History, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests include Soviet and post-Soviet social and gender history, decolonial perspective on Soviet politics on emancipation of “woman of the East” and gender equality. Gradskova is the author of Soviet Politics of Emancipation of Ethnic Minority Women. Natsionalka (Springer, 2018) and co-editor of several books, including Gendering Postsocialism. Old Legacies and New Hierarchies (Routledge 2018, with Ildiko Asztalos Morell); Gender Equality on a Grand Tour. Politics and Institutions – the Nordic Council,  Sweden, Lithuania and Russia (Brill, 2017 – with E. Blomberg, Y. Waldemarson and A. Zvinkliene).

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