International Women's Year
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-757474-4 (ISBN)
Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year. The capstone event, a two-week conference in Mexico City, was dubbed by organizers and journalists as "the greatest consciousness-raising event in history." The event drew an all-star cast of characters, including Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, Iranian Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, and US feminist Betty Friedan, as well as a motley array of policymakers, activists, and journalists.
International Women's Year, the first book to examine this critical moment in feminist history, starts by exploring how organizers juggled geopolitical rivalries and material constraints amid global political and economic instability. The story then dives into the action in Mexico City, including conflicts over issues ranging from abortion to Zionism. The United Nations provided indispensable infrastructure and support for this encounter, even as it came under fire for its own discriminatory practices. While participants expressed dismay at levels of discord and conflict, Jocelyn Olcott explores how these combative, unanticipated encounters generated the most enduring legacies, including women's networks across the global south, greater attention to the intersectionalities of marginalization, and the arrival of women's micro-credit on the development scene.
This watershed moment in transnational feminism, colorfully narrated in International Women's Year, launched a new generation of activist networks that spanned continents, ideologies, and generations.
Jocelyn Olcott is Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico and the co-editor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico.
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Acronyms
Dramatis Personae
Introduction
Act I: International Women's Year Deserves No Less
Scene One: WINGO Politics
Scene Two: Choosing Battles in the Cold War
Scene Three: Getting to Mexico City
Scene Four: Follow the Money
Act II: The Conference
Scene Five: Opening Acts
Scene Six: Inauguration Day
Scene Seven: "Betty Friedan vs. the Third World"
Scene Eight: "This Is an Illegitimate Delegation"
Scene Nine: "Other Kinds of Problems"
Scene Ten: The Politics of Peace
Scene Eleven: The First Rule of Fight Club
Scene Twelve: Coming Out Party
Scene Thirteen: Chaos in the Tribune
Scene Fourteen: Counter-congresses
Scene Fifteen: !Domitila a la Tribuna!
Scene Sixteen: The Final Push
Scene Seventeen: Unceremonious Closing
Act III: Legacies
Scene Eighteen: Beyond Mexico City
Notes on Sources, Theories, and Methods
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.03.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 35 halftones |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 499 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-757474-2 / 0197574742 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-757474-4 / 9780197574744 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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