Research Catalog

Title

Women and political conflict : portraits of struggle in times of crisis / edited by Rosemary Ridd and Helen Calloway.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : New York University Press, 1987.

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Additional Authors

• Ridd, Rosemary.
• Calloway, Helen.
• University of Oxford. Women's Studies Committee.

Description

xi, 246 pages; 22 cm

Subjects

• Power (Social sciences)
• Women > Political activity
• Women > Social conditions

Note

• Based on a seminar convened by Rosemary Ridd in Trinity term 1981 at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, under the auspices of the Oxford University Women's Studies Committee.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Powers of the powerless / Rosemary Ridd -- War in Cyprus : patriarchy and the Penelope myth / Maria Roussou -- Women, the damned of the Iranian revolution / Homa Nategh -- Public protest, domestic acquiescence : women in Northern Ireland / Lynda Edgerton -- The coal war : women's struggle during the British miner's strike / Moiram Ali -- Between two fires : Palestinian women in Lebanon / Rosemary Sayigh and Julie Peteet -- Israeli kibbutz women / Alison M. Bowes -- Brittany : politics and women in a minority world / Maryon McDonald -- Refusing to be invisible : Turkish women in west Berlin / Clare Krojzl -- Survival and support : women's forms of political action / Helen Calloway.

ISBN

• 0814773982 :
• 0814773990 (pbk.) :

LCCN

86012817

OCLC

• 13794986
• ocm13794986

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries