This book examines the role of the Women's International Defense
Federation (WIDF) in transnational women's activism in the context
of the Cold War, and in connection to the rights of women from
Asia, Africa and Latin America. Combining a global history and
postcolonial theory approach, this monograph shines light on an
underrepresented organisation and its important role in the Cold
War, Twentieth Century women's rights and Soviet history.
Questioning whether the organization acted for women's causes or
whether it was merely a Cold War political instrument, the book
analyzes and problematizes the place that the WIDF had in the
politics of the Soviet Union, examining the ideology and politics
of the WIDF and state socialist propaganda regarding women's
equality and rights. Using Soviet archival documents of the
organizations, the book offers a new perspective on the
complexities of the development of global women's rights movement
divided by the Cold War confrontations. This is an important study
suitable for students and researchers in Women's and Gender
History, Eastern European History and Gender Studies.
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