On Transnational Feminist Solidarity: The Case of Angela Davis in Egypt.
In the early 1970s, Angela Davis visited Egypt, a trip she wrote about in her book <italic>Women, Culture, and Politics</italic>. This article uses Davis’s trip as a lens through which to approach the question of transnational feminist solidarity through the eyes of multiple generations of Egyptian...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 245 - 268 |
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University of Chicago Press
Winter2018
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