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Book SynopsisA collection examining the trailblazing lives and movements of radical women who have shaped the modern world
Trade Review‘Exhilarating and immensely valuable’
-- Priyamvada Gopal, Professor, University of Cambridge
'Captivating ... captures the resolute vision of revolutionary women in anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggles'
-- Shahrzad Mojab, Professor, co-author of 'Revolutionary Learning'
'Powerful, complex and compassionate ... a meaningful intervention – not only in women’s and revolutionary history, but in world history'
-- Dilar Dirik, author of 'The Kurdish Women’s Movement'
Table of ContentsIntroduction: She Who Struggles - Marral Shamshiri and Sorcha Thomson
1. Melba Hernández: From Cuba to Vietnam, Under One Roof - Sorcha Thomson
2. Mabel Dove and Aoua Kéita: Feminist and Internationalist Struggles from Ghana to Mali - Yatta Kiazolu and Madina Thiam
3. Mary Mooney: A Story of Irish and African Diaspora Solidarity - Maurice J. Casey
4. TESTIMONY: The Power of Women’s International Solidarity with the Palestinian Revolution - Jehan Helou
5. Shigenobu Fusako: From Japan to Palestine in World Revolution - Jeremy Randall
6. Marziyeh Ahmadi Osku’i: Guerrilla Poetry between Iran, Afghanistan and India - Marral Shamshiri
7. Madame Bình and Madame Nhu: The Vietnamese Woman as Icon of Solidarity in Palestine and Iran - Thy Phu, Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi and Donya Ziaee
8. Sakine Cansız: Women’s Liberation and the Kurdistan Freedom Movement - Elif Sarican
9. Lindiwe Mabuza: Culture as a Weapon of Resistance in South Africa - Kebotlhale Motseothata
10. Where Are the Revolutionary Women of West Asia and North Africa? - Kanwal Hameed and Sara Salem
11. Delia Aguilar: Dissident Friendship and Filipino Feminist Thought - Karen Buenavista Hanna
12. Sister Cities: Salvadoran Refugees and US-Salvadoran Solidarity in the Americas - Molly Todd
13. INTERVIEW: Building Socialist Feminism on Southern Ground: The Women Democratic Front on the History and Politics of the Left in Pakistan - Mahvish Ahmad, Marvi Latifi, Ismat Shahjahan and Tooba Syed of the Women Democratic Front in Pakistan
