The specificity of national histories shapes the priorities, tensions, and character of respective feminist movements. In the case of Greece, several waves of occupation and resistance from the Second World War to the Colonels dictatorship (1967-1974) gave rise to a broad-based and complex women's movement in the 1970s. This paper investigates the main division in the movement between (a) activists who espoused the autonomy of feminist politics in the spirit of Western European and American feminisms and (b) activists who aligned women's liberation with the projects of the Greek socialist and communist left. This article seeks to illuminate the ways in which second-wave feminism was shaped by the legacy of the Second World War when, in popular memory, the notions of freedom, justice, and equality became identified with the Greek left. While the rift enriched the women's movement, deeply entrenched beliefs in feminism as a subdivision of mainstream politics prevailed and ultimately stifled the development of an enduring contemporary feminist political culture in Greece.
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Reclaiming Romanian Historical Feminism
History Writing and Feminist Politics in Romania
Roxana Cheşchebec
Stefania Mihailescu, Din istoria feminismului românesc. Antologie de texte (1838–1929) (From the history of Romanian feminism. Collection of documents [1838–1929]), Iasi: Polirom, 2002, 376 pp., 18.90 RON (pb). ISBN 973-681-012-7
Stefania Mihailescu, Emanciparea femeii române. Antologie de texte. Vol. I (1815–1928) (Romanian women’s emancipation. Collection of documents. Vol. I [1815–1928]), Bucuresti: Editura Ecumenica, 2001, 605 pp., (pb). ISBN 973-99782-1-5
Maria Bucur, Mihaela Miroiu eds., Patriarhat si emancipare în istoria gîndirii politice românesti (Patriarchy and emancipation in the history of Romanian political thought), Iasi: Polirom, 2002, 270 pp., (pb). ISBN 973-681-130-1
Mihaela Miroiu, Drumul catre autonomie. Teorii politice feministe (The road to autonomy. Feminist political theories), Iasi: Polirom, 2004, 307 pp. 17.90 RON (pb). ISBN 973-681-646-X
Ghizela Cosma, Femeile si politica în România. Evolutia dreptului de vot în perioada interbelica (Women and politics in Romania. The evolution of the right to vote in the interwar period), Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitara Clujeana, 2002, 174 pp. (pb). ISBN 973-610-069-3
Ghizela Cosma, Virgiliu ̨ârau eds., Conditia femeii în România în secolul XX. Studii de caz (Woman’s condition in Romania in the twentieth century. Case studies), Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitara ̈ Clujeana, 2002, 213 pp. (pb). ISBN 973-610-127-4
Alin Ciupala, Femeia în societatea româneasca a secolului al XIX-lea (Woman in Romanian Society of the nineteenth century), Bucuresti: Editura Meridiane, 2003, 174 pp. (pb). ISBN 973-33-0481-6
Simona Stiger, ‘Miscarea feminista româneasca din Transilvania (1850–1914)’ (The Romanian feminist movement in Transylvania [1850–1914]), in Prezenòe feminine. Studii despre femei în România (Feminine presences. Studies about women in Romania), eds., Ghizela Cosma, Eniko... Magyari-Vincze and Oviciu Pecican, Cluj-Napoca: Editura Fundaòiei Desire, 2002, 237–266, 488 pp. (pb.). ISBN 973-85512-4-2
Francisca de Haan
materials from Bulgarian and international archives, the periodical press, and oral history interviews, Daskalova provides a biographical account of Dragoicheva’s life and discusses her communist and feminist politics. The article provides a very well
Ayşe Durakbaşa, Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Ana Pajvančić-Cizelj, Evgenia Sifaki, Maria Repoussi, Emilia Salvanou, Tatyana Kotzeva, Tamara Zlobina, Maria Bucur, Anna Muller, Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz, Lukas Schretter, Iza Desperak, Susan Zimmermann, and Marina Soroka
views. The fifth section, entitled “Gender in the Works of Halide Edib and Feminist Politics,” could have been developed to include more of Halide Edib’s works. However, the writer narrows her focus to the mentioned works and concludes that Halide Edib
Ten Years After
Communism and Feminism Revisited
Francisca de Haan, Kristen Ghodsee, Krassimira Daskalova, Magdalena Grabowska, Jasmina Lukić, Chiara Bonfiglioli, Raluca Maria Popa, and Alexandra Ghit
camps—and the exchanges in which we learned from one another at that time have initiated the precious feminist politics of solidarity in the times of wars and the regimes of nationalist exclusions of the others. 10 I quote these facts from the history
Selin Çağatay, Olesya Khromeychuk, Stanimir Panayotov, Zlatina Bogdanova, Margarita Karamihova, and Angelina Vacheva
shaped by the gender regime in Turkey. The book consists of an introduction, three chapters that build on each other, and a conclusion. Alongside an overview of the existing scholarship on the topic, the introduction, drawing on the theories of feminist
Birgitta Bader-Zaar, Evguenia Davidova, Minja Bujaković, Milena Kirova, Malgorzata Fidelis, Stefano Petrungaro, Alexandra Talavar, Daniela Koleva, Rochelle Ruthchild, Vania Ivanova, Valentina Mitkova, Roxana L. Cazan, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, and Nadia Danova
” traits and its author's feminist politics might seem contradictory considering the tenets of postmodernist literature, I hoped that they would converge. 4 However, to argue that the novel is a deliberate feminist undertaking is to ignore both the decade
Pınar Melis Yelsalı Parmaksız
created what feminist political scientist Carol Pateman has defined as modern patriarchy. Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988), 24. 42 Deniz Kandiyoti, “Emancipated but Unliberated? Reflections on the
A Woman Politician in the Cold War Balkans
From Biography to History
Krassimira Daskalova
methodology and sources; then I provide a short biographical account of Tsola Dragoicheva’s life and continue to discuss her communist and feminist politics. Historiography and Sources The historiography dealing with (South) Eastern Europe has tended to
Modern Women in a Modern State
Public Discourse in Interwar Yugoslavia on the Status of Women in Turkey (1923–1939)
Anđelko Vlašić
., Middle Eastern Technical University, 2004), 142–143. 10 Marina Vujnović, “Forging the Bubikopf Nation: A Feminist Political-Economic Analysis of Ženski List, Interwar Croatia’s women’s Magazine, for the Construction of an Alternative Vision of Modernity