Download or read book Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World written by Kumari Jayawardena and published by London : Zed Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the history of those political struggles women launched in the Asian countries of India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, Korea and the Philippines, and the Middle Eastern countries of Egypt, Turkey and Iran from the late 19th century onwards. The author challenges the view that feminism is a foreign ideology currently being imposed on Third World countries.