Women, Resistance and Revolution (46 page)

10.
Foster Snow,
Women in Modern China
, p. 203.

11.
ibid., p. 216.

12.
ibid., p. 205.

13.
Quoted in Jo O’Brien, ‘On Reading
Birdless Summer
’, in
Socialist Woman
, July–August 1969.
N. B. This section on Han Suyin is based on Jo O’Brien’s review.

14.
Witke,
Mao Tse-tung, Women and Suicide
, p. 138.

15.
Mao Tse-tung, ‘Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan’, in
Quotations from Mao Tse-tung
, London, 1967, p. 169.

16.
William Hinton,
Fanshen
, New York, 1968, p. 397.

17.
ibid., pp. 157–8.

18.
Anna Louise Strong,
The Rise of the Chinese People’s Communes
, Peking, 1964, p. 64.

19.
Jan Myrdal,
Report from a Chinese Village
, London, 1965, pp. 220–22.

20.
Leo A. Orleans, ‘Evidence from Chinese Medical Journals on Current Population Policy’, in
China Quarterly
, no. 40, October–December 1969, p. 142.

21.
Myrdal,
Report from a Chinese Village
, pp. 226–7.

22.
Joshua Horn,
Away With All Pests
, London, 1969, p. 141.

23.
Maud Russell, ‘Urban People’s Communes in China’,
New York Far East Reporter
, pp. 8–9.

24.
Simone de Beauvoir,
The Long March
, London, 1958, p. 153.

25.
Myrdal,
Report from a Chinese Village
, p. 22.

26.
Yang Yun-yu,
Report of the Struggle Between Two Lines at the Moscow World Congress of Women
, Peking, 1963, p. 37.

27.
Barbara Mututantri, ‘Women in China’, in
Eastern Horizon
, vol. 7, no. 7, September–October 1968, p. 50.

28.
ibid., p. 46.

29.
Dick Anderson, ‘Grass Roots Self-Government’,
S.A.C.U. News
, (Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding), March 1969.

30.
Roland Berger, ‘The Cultural Revolution and the Family’,
S.A.C.U. News
, February 1969.

31.
Anna Louise Strong,
Letter from China
, no. 46, 29 January 1967.

32.
Pei-ku Hung, ‘A Girls’ Herding Team’, in
China Reconstructs
, vol. 18, no. 9, September 1969.

33.
‘Throw the Buying-and-Selling Type of Matrimony into the Rubbish Dump of History’, in
China in the News
, 11 January 1971, China Reprints 1, S.A.C.U.

34.
Quoted by Jo O’Brien, in ‘On Reading
Birdless Summer
’,
Socialist Woman
, July–August 1969.

Chapter 8

  
1.
Caliban in
The Tempest
; quoted by O. Mannoni,
Prospero and Caliban
, New York, 1964, p. 76.

  
2.
Esther Boserup,
Woman’s Role in Economic Development
, London, 1970, p. 147.

  
3.
Cora Ureede de Stuer,
The Indonesian Woman
, The Hague, 1960, pp. 84–5.

  
4.
Quoted in ‘Vietnamese Women’,
Vietnamese Studies
, 10, Hanoi, 1966, pp. 8–9.

  
5.
ibid., pp. 17–18.

  
6.
ibid., p. 31.

  
7.
ibid., p. 33.

  
8.
ibid., p. 35.

  
9.
Martha Gellhorn, ‘The Vietcong’s Peacemaker’,
The Times
, 27 January 1969.

10.
ibid.,

11.
‘Vietnamese Women’,
Vietnamese Studies
, p. 40.

12.
See Anna Davin, ‘Women in Vietnam’,
Shrew
, December 1970, pp. 5–8, for an account of this interview. The information which is not in this article comes from notes taken at the meeting.

13.
Davin,
Women in Vietnam
, p. 7.

14.
ibid.

15.
Charlotte Bunch-Weeks, ‘Asian Women in Revolution’, in
Women, A Journal of Liberation
, summer 1970, p. 9. See also
Off Our Backs
, 26 June 1970.

16.
‘Vietnamese Women’, p. 53.

17.
ibid., p. 54.

18.
Jack Woddis,
Ho Chi Minh – Selected Articles and Speeches, 1920–1967
, London, 1969, pp. 129–30.

19.
Gellhorn, ‘The Vietcong’s Peacemaker’,
The Times
, 27 January 1969.

20.
Alice Wolfson, ‘Budapest Journal’, in
Off Our Backs
, 14 December 1970, p. 2.

21.
ibid.

22.
ibid.

23.
Bunch-Weeks, ‘Asian Women in Revolution’, p. 9.

24.
Wolfson, ‘Budapest Journal’, p. 2.

25.
ibid.

26.
Fidel Castro, ‘Women’s Liberation: The Revolution within the Revolution’, from
The Santa Clara Speech
, 1966, Merit Pamphlet, New York, 1970.

27.
Quoted in Chris Camarano, ‘Cuban Woman’,
Leviathan
, vol. 2, no. 1, May 1970, p. 42.

28.
Che Guevara,
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
, London, 1968, pp. 147–8.

29.
From notes of the tape recording. For a short account of this meeting see Mary Kennedy, ‘Cuban Women’,
Shrew
, December 1970, pp. 8–10.

30.
Bessie Leigh, ‘Woman’s Place in Cuba’,
Comment
, 22 November 1969, p. 751.

31.
Elizabeth Sutherland,
The Youngest Revolution
, London, 1970, p. 175.

32.
Castro, ‘The Revolution within the Revolution’,
Santa Clara Speech
, 1966.

33.
Quoted in Leigh, ‘Woman’s Place in Cuba’, p. 750.

34.
Sutherland,
The Youngest Revolution
, p. 171.

35.
Lee Lockwood,
Castro’s Cuba, Cuba’s Fidel
, New York, 1965, p. 106.

36.
See Sutherland,
The Youngest Revolution
, ‘Colony Within the
Colony’, and ‘Two Weeks on the Isle of Youth’, pp. 138–68, and pp. 211–77.

37.
ibid., p. 184.

38.
Lockwood,
Castro’s Cuba, Cuba’s Fidel
, p. 107. On the attitude to male homosexuality and its connection to
machismo
, see Tony Harrison, ‘Shango the Shaky Fairy’,
London Magazine
, April 1970, pp. 5–27.

39.
Sutherland,
The Youngest Revolution
, p. 179.

40.
ibid., p. 183.

41.
Joan Berman, ‘Women in Cuba’, in
Women: A Journal of Liberation
, vol. 1, no. 4, p. 12.

42.
Sutherland,
The Youngest Revolution
, p. 183.

43.
ibid., pp. 187–8.

44.
ibid.
Since writing this, an article has been translated into English from the March-June 1971 issue of
Casa de las Americas
, a Culson Journal, with the title ‘Towards a Science of Liberation’. It shows a concern to work out the theoretical connection between Marxism as a means of understanding capitalist societies and women’s liberation.

45.
Frantz Fanon,
A Dying Colonialism
, Penguin Books, London, 1970, p. 25.

46.
ibid., p. 28.

47.
ibid., p. 44.

48.
Frantz Fanon,
The Wretched of the Earth
, Penguin Books, London, 1970, pp. 206–7.

49.
Fadela m’Rabet,
La Femme Algérienne
, Paris, 1968, p. 15.

50.
Fadela m’Rabet,
Les Algériennes
, Paris, 1969, p. 101.

51.
Hélène Vandvelde, ‘Condition Féminine: L’Emancipation est Freinée par le Conformisme Social’,
Le Monde
, 24–5 January 1971

52.
m’Rabet,
Les Algériennes
, p. 106.

53.
m’Rabet,
La Femme Algérienne
, p. 61.

54.
ibid., p. 70.