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

Defending the Rights of Women of the ‘Whole World’

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ID19922351
AuthorsYulia Gradskova (0000-0002-0975-5560, Södertörn University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages212
Publication date2020-12-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWomen's International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003050032
OpenAlexW3110155929
ISBN9781003050032
Open LibraryOL54064671M
LanguageEN
Citations received5

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

Cold war · Democracy · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Geography · Political science · Politics · Regional science · Russian federation · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law

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