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The Global Left-Feminist 1960s: From Copenhagen to Moscow and New York (de Haan, 2018)

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Francisca de Haan's 2018 chapter proposing a 'global left-feminist 1960s' led by the WIDF network, from the 1953 Copenhagen Congress (whose declaration reached Indonesia) to the 1963 Moscow congress. Frames WIDF transnationalism relevant to Gerwani.

Bab Francisca de Haan 2018 yang mengusulkan 'tahun 1960-an feminis-kiri global' yang dipimpin jaringan WIDF, dari Kongres Kopenhagen 1953 (deklarasinya sampai ke Indonesia) hingga kongres Moskow 1963. Membingkai transnasionalisme WIDF yang relevan bagi Gerwani.

People

Francisca de HaanBetty Friedan

Organisations

Women's International Democratic Federation

Places

CopenhagenMoscowNew YorkIndonesia

Events

WIDF World Congress of Women, CopenhagenFifth WIDF World Congress of Women, Moscow

Topics

WIDF and international women's movementUSSR and Eastern Europewomen's rights and emancipationpeasant womenhistoriography

Tags

feminism

Details

Date
2018
Creator
de Haan
Document type
book chapter (book chapter (handbook chapter 17))
Language
English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
UK
Period
1999–present
Source archive
Taylor & Francis eBooks via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
Access
Chapter 17 in The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties (Routledge, 2018). Access status not shown in the file (probably library-licensed or author's copy) [to verify]. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
Citation (APA)
de Haan, F. (2018). The global left-feminist 1960s: From Copenhagen to Moscow and New York. In C. Jian, M. Klimke, M. Kirasirova, M. Nolan, M. Young, & J. Waley-Cohen (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of the global sixties: Between protest and nation-building (pp. 230–242). Routledge. [Editors' names and subtitle not shown in the PDF; taken from Gradskova (2020, n. 48) and external knowledge; to verify; DOI not shown]
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.3 WIDF, Afro-Asian Solidarity and Women's Internationalism/de Haan (2018) - The Global Left-Feminist 1960s, From Copenhagen to Moscow and New York.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.903) · 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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