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This incisive work provides a comparative political analysis of the women's movement in England, the United States, and Sweden from the 1960s to the present. Based on extensive interviews in each of the three countries, Feminism and Politics focuses not only on the internal dynamics of the movements themselves, but also on the relationship of feminist politics to the political process as a whole and to the economic and ideological context. Joyce Gelb finds that differences in the feminist movements in each country relate to systemic and cultural differences. In Britain the closed nature of the political system has greatly narrowed opportunities for feminist political activities. By contrast,...
This book offers a detailed analysis of how the USIA conducted its propaganda campaign in Sweden during the Cold War, 1952–1969. It shows how U.S. hegemony was co-produced by Swedish journalists, scientists, labour leaders, and government officials.