Gender and Activism. Women’s Voices in Political Debate

Contents: MIEKE AERTS, Introduction   KATRINE SMIET, One Size Fits All? FEMEN and the Limits of Secular Feminism   SENEM YILDRIM, The Case of Female mukhtars in Turkey: the ‘glass ceiling’ of local politics   ELENA BORGHI, ‘The time has now come for women to review and reform this system’. Female subjectivity and the debate over child marriage in late colonial India   Showcase: MYRIAM EVERARD, A colour portrait of feminist Rosa Manus from 1927   Interview: JOSEPHINE VAN DEN BENT, Fighting for female voices in a patriarchical society. Women’s activism in post-revolutionary Egypt   ULLA JANSZ, Women workers contested. Socialists versus feminists at the National exhibition of women’s labour in The Hague, 1898   Forum: MIEKE AERTS, Linda Gordon. Forty years of historical research on feminism and democracy   Sources: MARJAN GROOT, Visual democracy: posters on women in politics   KARLIJN OLIJSLAGER, Motherhood, domestic display, and democracy in the exhibition ‘The Dutch Women 1898-1948’   MANON PERRY, Feminist Opposition to Abortion