Fighting Two Colonialisms: The Women's Struggle in Guinea-Bissau

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Title:	Fighting Two Colonialisms: The Women's Struggle in Guinea-Bissau
Author:	Urdang, Stephanie
Year:	1975
Periodical:	African Studies Review
Volume:	18
Issue:	3
Period:	December
Pages:	29-34
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Guinea-Bissau
Subjects:	feminism national liberation struggles Women's Issues colonialism nationalism
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/523719
Abstract:	During the war of liberation and after Independence the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) in Guinea-Bissau saw the armed, struggie not as an end in itself, but as part of a politic to establish the foundation for a completely new society. Firmly/entrenched in this ideology is the belief that the liberation of women must be an integral part of the overall for building this new society. When the first mobilizers went into the countryside in 1959-60, the program of political education for which they were trained by Amilcar Cabral included raising the consciousness of both women and men about the oppression of women and the need to fight against it. This article discusses the ways in which PAIGC helped pave the way for the increased freedom of women. Notes; ref.