Women and revolution in Viet Nam

Eisen, Arlene

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Mozambique: The Revolution Under Fire

Mozambique: The revolution under fire

Hanlon, Joseph

In this book, South African performer and activist Robert Mshengu Kavanagh reveals the complex and conflicting interplay of class, nation and race in South African theatre under Apartheid. Evoking an era when theatre itself became a political battleground, Kavanagh displays how the struggle against Apartheid was played out on the stage as well as on the streets. Kavanagh's account spans three very different areas of South African theatre, with the author considering the merits and limitations of the multi-racial theatre projects created by white liberals; the popular commercial musicals staged for black audiences by emergent black entrepreneurs; and the efforts of the Black Consciousness Movement to forge a distinctly African form of revolutionary theatre in the 1970s. The result is a highly readable, pioneering study of the theatre at a time of unprecedented upheaval, diversity and innovation, with Kavanagh's cogent analysis demonstrating the subtle ways in which culture and the arts can become an effective means of challenging oppression.

Theatre and cultural struggle in South Africa (Third World books)

Kavanagh, Robert

Saddam's Iraq: Revolution or reaction? (Third World books)

History

Fran Hazleton

Middle East

<p>Saddam's Iraq: Revolution or Reaction? (Third World books) [Apr 01, 1986] Committee Against Repression &amp; for Democratic Rights in Iraq and Hazleton, Fran</p>

CARDRI

Joanna Liddle and Rama Joshi explore the connection in India between  gender and caste, and gender and class. They ask whether the  subordination of women has diminished as India moves from a caste to a  class structure, and what effect colonization had on the status of women  in India. Focusing on educated, professional women, the authors look at  the particular experiences of 120 women they interviewed, and also  interpret the larger patterns of social relations that emerge from the  interviews. These sensitive stories are told with an eloquence that is  often moving and inspiring.For thousands of years Indian women have  had a cultural tradition of resisting male domination. At the same time,  the control of female sexuality has always been central to social  hierarchies in India. Women are constrained in both class and caste  hierarchies, to help distinguish the men at the top of the hierarchy  from men at the bottom, where women are less constrained. In class  society the seclusion of women allowed men to have sexual control over  women and to retain the property that was transferred in marriage.In  contemporary India, professional women have had success entering the  professions as the social groups to which they belong move increasingly  to class rather than caste structures. But men continue to control the  type of education they receive and the type of employment open to them,  and to participate in the sexual harassment of women in the workplace.  The concept that women are inferior to men--a concept that is not part  of the Indian cultural heritage--is growing. In a sense, working  professional women strengthen male control. The class structure is no  more egalitarian than the caste structure, as oppression simply takes  other forms.

Daughters of independence: Gender, caste, and class in India (Third World books)

Liddle, Joanna

Asia

<p>96 pages. Translated into English by Richard Jacques.</p>

The Shadow by the Door

Gerardo Di Masso

Literature & Fiction

Nationalist thought and the colonial world: A derivative discourse? (Third World books)

Politics & Social Sciences

Chatterjee, Partha

Politics & Government

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