Writing on Domesticity, Thinking about Politics: Women Organising during Decolonisation in Cambodia, 1948–52.

By examining the intellectual renderings of previously marginalised voices in mid‐twentieth‐century Cambodian history, this article reconstructs notions of who is a political agent and what constitutes the 'political' in tumultuous moments of decolonisation. In 1948, Cambodian women founded the Samā...

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Publicado en:Gender & History Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 691 - 709
Autor principal: Miller, Catriona
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2023
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