Article: Global Feminisms since 1945.(Book Review)

Edited by BONNIE G. SMITH. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xii + 319. ISBN 0-415-18490-8 (cloth), 0-415-18491-6 (paper).

"You can only get the real taste of dried fish and women," according to a Korean proverb, "if you beat them once every 3 days" (p. 121). This typifies the appalling cultural, social, political, and economic obstacles women have faced, even in very recent times, around the world. In this book Bonnie G. Smith has drawn together fourteen chapters that explore the various ways in which postwar feminisms have emerged to confront these challenges. The contributions, all of them reprinted from earlier journal articles, edited collections, or ...

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