Before Bandung: The Anti-Imperialist Women’s Movement in Asia and the Women’s International Democratic Federation
Before Bandung: The Anti-Imperialist Women’s Movement in Asia and the Women’s International Democratic Federation
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万隆之前:亚洲反帝妇女运动和国际妇女民主联合会
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2016
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Elisabeth Armstrong
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Elisabeth Armstrong
The 1949 Conference of the Women of Asia held by the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) amplified a new anti-imperialist solidarity movement for women in the global South. Leftist feminists emerged from anticolonial movements to organize mass-based women’s groups, a process that created new alliances between regional women’s groups. In India, and across Asia, most groups concentrated their efforts on rural women embedded in the agricultural economy. This article looks at the forms of solidarity and the ideologies of anti-imperialist women’s activism that turned the charity model of Western feminist internationalism on its head. Before the celebrated Bandung Conference of 1955, Asian and African WIDF members emphasized a solidarity of commonalty as well as one of complicity in the international women’s movement to fight colonialism and neocolonialism in the new postwar order.