Discusses the methods and effects of forced de-Islamisization by the Soviet Republic on Kyrgyz women, focusing on the new dynamics of work in a "modernizing" society and the contradictions that forced women to be bearers of both tradition and…
Discusses the historical development of the Chinese women's movement from the early 1900s up to 1960 and its relationship to the Chinese Communist Revolution, as well as the status of Vietnamese women in the midst of the American War.
Report on the status of women in East Germany. Women's equality in public life is presented as the key to preventing war, a point made in the context of German history.