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Global Feminisms Project: Site Specific Thematic Films
No full textEach of the sites involved in the ‘Global Feminisms Project’ produced a video overview of the project, and how their site selected and interviewed Feminist Activists from China, India, Poland and the United States, respectively. The ‘Global Feminisms Project’ is a collaborative international project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements and academic women's studies in China, India, Poland, and the United States.The ‘Global Feminisms Project' was funded, beginning in 2002, by a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School, with additional funding provided by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women's Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57279/8/China_Thematic_Film_Transcript.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57279/7/India_Thematic_Film_Transcript.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57279/6/USA_Thematic_Film.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57279/4/Thematic_India_MPEG4part2.mp4http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57279/3/Thematic_Poland_MPEG4part2.mp4http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57279/2/Thematic_China_MPEG4part2.mp4http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57279/1/Thematic_USA_MPEG4part2.mp
Interview with Mangai
No full textThe Global Feminisms Project (http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/en/index.html) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include:
- Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL
- China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA
- SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA
- Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA
- Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLANDMangai is the pseudonym of Padma who is a theatre director and a Professor of English Literature in Stella Mary’s College, Chennai. As a member of the All India Democratic Women’s Association and Chennai Kalai Kuzhu, Mangai actively took up several issues relating to women and presented them in the form of street theatre and stage plays. Later she became the key person in a theatre group called Voicing Silence that is supported by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Centre. This group has scripted and enacted a range of issues from female infanticide to recasting women characters from epics. Mangai has scripted and participated in some of the plays and has directed some of the plays presented by the Voicing Silence group. Her Tamil plays raise many issues on gender, theatre and language that belong to debates within feminism.The ‘Global Feminisms Project' was funded, beginning in 2002, by a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School, with additional funding provided by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women's Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55728/3/Mangai_I_E_102806.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55728/2/CM_Mangai.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55728/6/Mangai_NTSC_FFmpeg.mp
Interview with Urvashi Butalia
No full textThe Global Feminisms Project (http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/en/index.html) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include:
- Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL
- China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA
- SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA
- Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA
- Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLANDUrvashi Butalia is a co-founder (in 1984) of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist publishing house. In 2003, Urvashi launched a new venture, Zubaan, which is an imprint of Kali. She obtained her undergraduate and master degrees in literature from Delhi University, and a Master’s in South Asian Studies from the University of London in 1977. She has worked as an editor at the Oxford University Press and Zed Press Books for several years, and has also held a position of reader at the college of vocational studies at Delhi University for over 20 years where she taught book publishing. Butalia is very active in the Indian women’s movement, and is a dedicated civil rights activist as well. She has also edited and authored several books, including the anthology, Speaking Peace: Women’s Voice from Kashmir, and with Tanika Sarkar, Women and the Hindu Right. She is the co-author with Ritu Menon of Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South, and author of The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. She has won several awards for her work, among them the Nikai Asia Prize for Culture in 2003 in Japan for her work as an author and co-founder of Kali for Women; the Oral History Association Book Award in 2001 in the U.S. for The Other Side of Silence, and the Pandora Women in Publishing Award in 2000 in the UK.The ‘Global Feminisms Project' was funded, beginning in 2002, by a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School, with additional funding provided by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women's Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55714/3/CM_Butalia.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55714/2/Butalia_CS_E_102806.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55714/6/Butalia_NTSC_FFmpeg.mp
Interview with Sista II Sista
No full textThe Global Feminisms Project (http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/en/index.html) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include:
- Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL
- China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA
- SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA
- Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA
- Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLANDSista II Sista is a Brooklyn-wide, community-based organization located in Bushwick, New York. It is a collective of working class young and adult Black and Latino women building together to model a society based on liberation and love. The organization is dedicated to working with young women of color to develop personal, spiritual and collective power. Sista II Sista is committed to fighting for justice and creating alternatives to the systems we live in by making social, cultural and political change. Sista II Sista’s involved in a variety of projects. Three examples of their work include: The Freedom School for Young Women of Color, The Big Mouth Project which is a series of workshops and talks on violence against women, ageism, sexism, sexual harassment, peer pressure and understanding multiple expressions of oppression and privilege. Another project is Sista Liberated Ground, a community action project to fight violence against women of color in their community without relying on the police.The ‘Global Feminisms Project' was funded, beginning in 2002, by a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School, with additional funding provided by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women's Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55718/6/SistaIISista_MPEG4part2.mp4http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55718/3/CM_SistaIISista.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55718/2/SistaIISista_U_E_102806.pd
Interview with Gao Xiaoxian
No full textThe Global Feminisms Project (http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/en/index.html) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include:
- Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL
- China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA
- SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA
- Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA
- Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLANDGao Xiaoxian, born in 1948, is Secretary General of the Shaanxi Research Association for Women and Family. Trained in history and sociology and working as an official in the Shaanxi Provincial Women’s Federation, Gao has been a pivotal figure in establishing this influential non-governmental women’s organization that has managed many research and activist projects that focus on empowering rural women in the west region of China. Gao has also been involved in rural development projects, particularly concerning rural girls’ education and rural women’s political participation.The ‘Global Feminisms Project' was funded, beginning in 2002, by a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School, with additional funding provided by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women's Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55712/2/CM_gaoxiaoxian.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55712/3/gaoxiaoxian_m.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55712/4/gaoxiaoxian_C_E_102806.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55712/8/Xiaoxian_Chinese_MPEG4part2.mp4https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55712/10/Xiaoxian_ENG.mp
Interview with Rabab Abdulhadi
No full textThe Global Feminisms Project (http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/en/index.html) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include:
- Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL
- China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA
- SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA
- Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA
- Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLANDBorn and raised in Nablus, Palestine, Rabab Abdulhadi is a long-time feminist activist and scholar who has made significant contributions to the struggle for Palestinian self-determination and the well-being of Palestinian women. She has participated in numerous organizations dedicated to fighting for the rights of Arab and Arab-American women. From 1982 to 1988, she was the Director of Political and International Relations at the Middle East Research Center in New York. Rabab Abdulhadi was instrumental in founding the Union of Palestinian Women’s Associations in North America during the first Intifada, or Palestinian uprising, that grew into 2,000 members and 29 chapters in the United States and Canada. Rabab Abdulhadi is also involved in a variety of coalition-building projects that make links between diasporic communities living in the U.S., U.S. communities of color and women of color activisms. Doctor Rabab Abdulhadi has published extensively for the academic and mainstream presses writing on issues of nationalism, terrorism, race, ethnicity and the experiences of the diasporic Arab communities. She is currently conducting research for the Gender and Sexuality Studies Center, in the Global South Project.The ‘Global Feminisms Project' was funded, beginning in 2002, by a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School, with additional funding provided by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women's Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55725/6/Abdulhadi_MPEG4part2.mp4http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55725/3/Abdulhadi_U_E_102806.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55725/2/CM_Abdulhadi.pd
Interview with Ima Thokchom Ramani Devi
No full textThe Global Feminisms Project (http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/en/index.html) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include:
- Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL
- China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA
- SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA
- Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA
- Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLANDIma Thokchom Ramani Devi is the General Secretary of All Manipur Women’s Reformation and Development Samaj. The Samaj was registered in 1978. There was no office as such. It kept shifting from one place to another. The last office the Samaj occupied was demolished and currently the Samaj is temporarily located in the green room of an amphitheatre in Imphal. The Samaj has taken up several issues like banning of alcohol, rape, individual cases of women, and the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Ima Thokchom Ramani Devi belongs to the Meitei community and has studied only up to the primary level. In her growing up years she learnt to weave, dance and sing. 27th August 1965, which is still observed as the Hunger Marchers’ Day, was her first initiation into action to demand rights. She is currently known for the struggles she has waged with her group for the cause of women and for the cause of peace in the region.The ‘Global Feminisms Project' was funded, beginning in 2002, by a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School, with additional funding provided by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women's Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55732/3/TRDevi_I_E_102806.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55732/2/CM_TRDevi.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55732/7/R_Devi_NTSC_FFmpeg.mp
Interview with Anna Gruszczyńska
No full textThe Global Feminisms Project (http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/en/index.html) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include:
- Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL
- China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA
- SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA
- Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA
- Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLANDAnna Gruszczyńska was born in 1978 in Kowary, Poland. She studied English and later Spanish Philology at the University of Wrocław and at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. In 2001, Gruszczyńska started a chapter of the Campaign Against Homophobia and has been its president ever since. She has organized marches and campaigns calling for gay and lesbian rights in Poland and as an outspoken lesbian and feminist activist, she has experienced social and political repercussions. She is firmly committed to fighting homophobia and regularly publishes articles about the topic in feminist magazines. She currently resides in Cracow.The ‘Global Feminisms Project' was funded, beginning in 2002, by a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School, with additional funding provided by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women's Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55698/2/Gruszczynska Biblio.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55698/3/Gruszczynska_P_P_102806.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55698/4/Gruszczynska_P_E_102806.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55698/8/Gruszcynska_Polish_MPEG4part2.mp4https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55698/10/Gruszczynska_ENG.mp
Interview with Liu Bohong
No full textThe Global Feminisms Project (http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/en/index.html) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include:
- Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL
- China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA
- SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA
- Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA
- Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLANDLiu Bohong is Deputy Director of the Institute of Research on Women of the All-China Women's Federation and has played an active role circulating ideas of feminism in the Women’s Federation system. Since the 1995 UN conference in Beijing, she has worked with the Chinese government system to teach leaders about the relevance of gender to laws and policies. She has participated in formulating national programs that implement the 1995 UN Platform for Action, and currently, in activities on Beijing+10.The ‘Global Feminisms Project' was funded, beginning in 2002, by a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School, with additional funding provided by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women's Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55707/2/CM_liubohong.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55707/3/liubohong_m.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55707/4/liubohong_C_E_102806.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55707/8/Bohong_Chinese_MPEG4part2.mp4https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55707/10/Bohong_ENG.mp
Interview with Li Huiying
No full textThe Global Feminisms Project (http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/en/index.html) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include:
- Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL
- China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA
- SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA
- Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA
- Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLANDLi Huiying, born in 1957, is Professor of Sociology and assistant Director of the Women Research Center of the Central Party School, a school providing training for senior level Chinese Communist Party officials. The Center is housed within the School, but runs as an independent unit. Professor Li is the major figure to promote gender related courses in the Central Party School and has succeeded in incorporating courses on gender studies in the official curriculum. In recent years her activism has expanded beyond the Central Party School to include the whole system of the party school by running feminist workshops for faculty from provincial and municipal party schools nationwide. Professor Li has also published widely on gender and public policy.The ‘Global Feminisms Project' was funded, beginning in 2002, by a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School, with additional funding provided by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women's Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55708/2/lihuiying_m.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55708/3/lihuiying_C_E_102806.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55708/4/CM_lihuiying.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55708/8/Huiying_Chinese_MPEG4part2.mp4https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55708/10/Huiying_ENG.mp
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