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Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949 (Elisabeth Armstrong, 2023)

Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949 (Armstrong, 2023)

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Elisabeth Armstrong's 2023 book reconstructing the Asian Women's Conference, Beijing, 10-16 Dec 1949, hosted by the WIDF and the All-China Democratic Women's Federation, with its 'inside/outside' praxis of women's anti-imperialism. Context for WIDF-Asia ties before Gerwis's founding.

Buku Elisabeth Armstrong 2023 yang merekonstruksi Konferensi Wanita Asia, Beijing, 10-16 Des 1949, diselenggarakan WIDF dan Federasi Wanita Demokratik Seluruh Tiongkok, dengan praksis anti-imperialisme perempuan 'dalam/luar'. Konteks hubungan WIDF-Asia sebelum Gerwis berdiri.

People

Elisabeth Armstrong

Organisations

Women's International Democratic FederationAll-China Women's Federation

Places

BeijingAsia

Events

Asian Women's Conference, Beijing

Topics

WIDF and international women's movementChinapeace and anti-imperialismwomen's rights and emancipationAfro-Asian solidarity

Tags

conference abroad

Details

Date
2023
Creator
Armstrong
Document type
book (scholarly monograph (history of the 1949 WIDF Asian Women's Conference, Beijing; narrative-biographical and theoretical))
Language
English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
USA
Period
1999–present
Source archive
De Gruyter Brill (UC Press) via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
Access
Downloaded 2026-10-15 via Nath's Chrome (see 'Download Log 2026-10-15.csv'). The file shows no library or platform watermark or licence statement (publisher's print PDF pages with InDesign slugs, assembled with pdf-lib). It is a commercial UC Press monograph (2023), so access was presumably library-licensed or publisher-supplied [verify in download log]; not known to be open access. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
Citation (APA)
Armstrong, E. B. (2023). Bury the corpse of colonialism: The revolutionary feminist conference of 1949. University of California Press.
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.3 WIDF, Afro-Asian Solidarity and Women's Internationalism/Armstrong (2023) - Bury the Corpse of Colonialism, The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.911) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
02 Secondary Sources › 2.3 WIDF, Afro-Asian Solidarity and Women's Internationalism
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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