Elisabeth Armstrong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3664875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisabeth Armstrong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Armstrong |
| SIGNATURE | ARMSTRONG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anticolonialism and Social Thought
Not only did the anticolonial movements of the past two centuries help bring down the global order of colonial empires, they also produced novel, innovative and vital social thought. Anticolonialism has been largely ignored in conventional Europe-centered social thought and theory, but this book shows how our sociological imagination can be expanded by taking challenges to colonialism and imperialism seriously. Amidst their struggles to change th…
Among Women, Across Worlds
Journal Article Among Women, Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War. By Suzy Kim Get access Among Women, Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War. By Suzy Kim (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 330 pp. $56.95). Elisabeth Armstrong Elisabeth Armstrong Smith College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, shad034, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh…
Bury the Corpse of Colonialism
An intimate look at the 1949 Asian Women’s Conference, the movements it drew from, and its influence on feminist anticolonialism around the world. In 1949, revolutionary activists from Asia hosted a conference in Beijing that gathered together their comrades from around the world. The Asian Women’s Conference developed a new political strategy, demanding that women from occupying colonial nations contest imperialism with the same dedication as wo…
The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism
From the genealogy of ideas used to strengthen Afro-Asian solidarity to the political economy of institutional finance and Cold War patronage, this book tells an interconnected set of stories of cultural and intellectual traffic in the post-colonial era
Peace and the Barrel of the Gun in the Internationalist Women's Movement, 1945-49
In 1949, at a conference instigated by the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) held in Beijing, China, the Asian Women's Conference solidified an anticolonial, antifascist, and antiracist theory for organizing women transnationally. This transnational feminist praxis drew its movement demands and strategies from the masses of women in anticolonial movements, both rural and urban poor women. It also framed a two-fold theory of women…
Before Bandung
The 1949 Conference of the Women of Asia held by the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) amplified a new anti-imperialist solidarity movement for women in the global South. Leftist feminists emerged from anticolonial movements to organize mass-based women’s groups, a process that created new alliances between regional women’s groups. In India, and across Asia, most groups concentrated their efforts on rural women embedded in the ag…
The Tsunami's Windfall
On January 15 2005 three weeks after the Tsunami I visited relief camps in and around North Chennai India with the All India Democratic Womens Association (AIDWA) which was in the process of assessing damage and reconstruction needs. AIDWA a national organization with 450000 members in the state of Tamil Nadu alone was able to provide its services in the immediate aftermath of the disaster in a highly coordinated effort across the coastal areas o…
Exiles from a Future Land
Solidarity
Solidarity:War Rites and Women’s Rights Elisabeth B. Armstrong (bio) and Vijay Prashad (bio) War Stories War has never been men's work. Women are always part of wars. Women fight and die in wars. Women protest and resist wars. Nothing is predictable, however, about how women enter war, or how war enters them. Since the Vietnam War, the catchphrase "women and children first" has no longer simply earmarked those passive bystanders and innocent vict…
Globalization from Below
Social movements and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) fight on the frontlines of neoliberal development policies, for their constituencies and for their own survival. These groups’ proximity to neoliberalism, through their funding sources and decision-making structures, has come under increasing scrutiny marked by the critical description of their “NGOization.” This globalization from below into the fabric of grassroots resistance marks an im…
Contingency Plans for the Feminist Revolution
Hope for another movement, a third wave of feminism, inspires fresh debates about the second wave women's movement, particularly the youthful women's liberation movement (WLM). The literature begins a process of what Frigga Haug calls “memory work,” the attention of present feminists to their collective past. Nancy Fraser's call to re-center political economy in feminist theories of social change remains important. But in the 1960s and early 70s …
Huntington’s Ecstatic Subjects
Before Bandung
The 1949 Conference of the Women of Asia held by the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) amplified a new anti-imperialist solidarity movement for women in the global South. Leftist feminists emerged from anticolonial movements to organize mass-based women’s groups, a process that created new alliances between regional women’s groups. In India, and across Asia, most groups concentrated their efforts on rural women embedded in the ag…
Exiles from a Future Land
Peace and the Barrel of the Gun in the Internationalist Women's Movement, 1945-49
In 1949, at a conference instigated by the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) held in Beijing, China, the Asian Women's Conference solidified an anticolonial, antifascist, and antiracist theory for organizing women transnationally. This transnational feminist praxis drew its movement demands and strategies from the masses of women in anticolonial movements, both rural and urban poor women. It also framed a two-fold theory of women…
The Tsunami's Windfall
On January 15 2005 three weeks after the Tsunami I visited relief camps in and around North Chennai India with the All India Democratic Womens Association (AIDWA) which was in the process of assessing damage and reconstruction needs. AIDWA a national organization with 450000 members in the state of Tamil Nadu alone was able to provide its services in the immediate aftermath of the disaster in a highly coordinated effort across the coastal areas o…
Globalization from Below
Social movements and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) fight on the frontlines of neoliberal development policies, for their constituencies and for their own survival. These groups’ proximity to neoliberalism, through their funding sources and decision-making structures, has come under increasing scrutiny marked by the critical description of their “NGOization.” This globalization from below into the fabric of grassroots resistance marks an im…
Contingency Plans for the Feminist Revolution
Hope for another movement, a third wave of feminism, inspires fresh debates about the second wave women's movement, particularly the youthful women's liberation movement (WLM). The literature begins a process of what Frigga Haug calls “memory work,” the attention of present feminists to their collective past. Nancy Fraser's call to re-center political economy in feminist theories of social change remains important. But in the 1960s and early 70s …
Huntington’s Ecstatic Subjects
Contingency Plans for the Feminist Revolution
Hope for another movement, a third wave of feminism, inspires fresh debates about the second wave women's movement, particularly the youthful women's liberation movement (WLM). The literature begins a process of what Frigga Haug calls “memory work,” the attention of present feminists to their collective past. Nancy Fraser's call to re-center political economy in feminist theories of social change remains important. But in the 1960s and early 70s …
Globalization from Below
Social movements and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) fight on the frontlines of neoliberal development policies, for their constituencies and for their own survival. These groups’ proximity to neoliberalism, through their funding sources and decision-making structures, has come under increasing scrutiny marked by the critical description of their “NGOization.” This globalization from below into the fabric of grassroots resistance marks an im…
Exiles from a Future Land
Solidarity
Solidarity:War Rites and Women’s Rights Elisabeth B. Armstrong (bio) and Vijay Prashad (bio) War Stories War has never been men's work. Women are always part of wars. Women fight and die in wars. Women protest and resist wars. Nothing is predictable, however, about how women enter war, or how war enters them. Since the Vietnam War, the catchphrase "women and children first" has no longer simply earmarked those passive bystanders and innocent vict…
The Tsunami's Windfall
On January 15 2005 three weeks after the Tsunami I visited relief camps in and around North Chennai India with the All India Democratic Womens Association (AIDWA) which was in the process of assessing damage and reconstruction needs. AIDWA a national organization with 450000 members in the state of Tamil Nadu alone was able to provide its services in the immediate aftermath of the disaster in a highly coordinated effort across the coastal areas o…
Before Bandung
The 1949 Conference of the Women of Asia held by the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) amplified a new anti-imperialist solidarity movement for women in the global South. Leftist feminists emerged from anticolonial movements to organize mass-based women’s groups, a process that created new alliances between regional women’s groups. In India, and across Asia, most groups concentrated their efforts on rural women embedded in the ag…
Peace and the Barrel of the Gun in the Internationalist Women's Movement, 1945-49
In 1949, at a conference instigated by the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) held in Beijing, China, the Asian Women's Conference solidified an anticolonial, antifascist, and antiracist theory for organizing women transnationally. This transnational feminist praxis drew its movement demands and strategies from the masses of women in anticolonial movements, both rural and urban poor women. It also framed a two-fold theory of women…
The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism
From the genealogy of ideas used to strengthen Afro-Asian solidarity to the political economy of institutional finance and Cold War patronage, this book tells an interconnected set of stories of cultural and intellectual traffic in the post-colonial era
Bury the Corpse of Colonialism
An intimate look at the 1949 Asian Women’s Conference, the movements it drew from, and its influence on feminist anticolonialism around the world. In 1949, revolutionary activists from Asia hosted a conference in Beijing that gathered together their comrades from around the world. The Asian Women’s Conference developed a new political strategy, demanding that women from occupying colonial nations contest imperialism with the same dedication as wo…
Among Women, Across Worlds
Journal Article Among Women, Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War. By Suzy Kim Get access Among Women, Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War. By Suzy Kim (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 330 pp. $56.95). Elisabeth Armstrong Elisabeth Armstrong Smith College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, shad034, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh…
Anticolonialism and Social Thought
Not only did the anticolonial movements of the past two centuries help bring down the global order of colonial empires, they also produced novel, innovative and vital social thought. Anticolonialism has been largely ignored in conventional Europe-centered social thought and theory, but this book shows how our sociological imagination can be expanded by taking challenges to colonialism and imperialism seriously. Amidst their struggles to change th…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works)