Bury the Corpse of Colonialism

The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949

• Author(s): Elisabeth Armstrong,
• Publisher: Univ of California Press
• Pages: 208
• ISBN_10: 0520390903
  ISBN_13: 9780520390904
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / World , History / Women , Political Science / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism , Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

Description:... An intimate look at the 1949 Asian Women’s Conference, the movements it drew from, and its influence on feminist anticolonialism around the world.

In 1949, revolutionary activists from Asia hosted a conference in Beijing that gathered together their comrades from around the world. The Asian Women’s Conference developed a new political strategy, demanding that women from occupying colonial nations contest imperialism with the same dedication as women whose countries were occupied. Bury the Corpse of Colonialism shows how activists and movements create a revolutionary theory over time and through struggle—in this case, by launching a strategy for anti-imperialist feminist internationalism.

At the heart of this book are two stories. The first describes how the 1949 conference came to be, how it was experienced, and what it produced. The second follows the delegates home. What movements did they represent? Whose voices did they carry? How did their struggles hone their praxis? By examining the lives of more than a dozen AWC participants, Bury the Corpse of Colonialism traces the vital differences at the heart of internationalist solidarity for women’s emancipation in a world structured through militarism, capitalism, patriarchy, and the seeming impossibility of justice.