The future that was : a history of third world feminism against authoritarianism / Durba Mitra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitra, Durba, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Social conditions.

Feminism--History.

Women--Developing countries--Social conditions.

Women.

Feminism--Developing countries--History--21st century.

Feminism.

Feminism--Developing countries--History--20th century.

Developing countries.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2026].

Summary:

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present Beginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Introduction, or What Is the Future We Yearn For?

1 The Conference, or What If Gathering Together Liberated Us?

2 The Report, or Whatever Happened to Third World Feminist Theory?

3 The Organization, or What If We Collaborate across Borders?

4 The Book, or How Can We Seize the Means of Knowledge Production?

5 The Protest, or What If We Took to the Streets?

Afterword, or We're Still Here

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Short Bios of Selected Women Who Animate The Future That Was

Notes

Bibliography

Name and Place Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource, publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Mitra, Durba, $e author. The future that was : a history of third world feminism against authoritarianism

ISBN:

9780691233628

0691233624

OCLC:

1565283464