An anthology of essays examining the wide platform of women's revolutionary involvements and the broad range of contributions by women to movements of social transformation. The contributions of women from Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as Europe and the USA are explored and compared.

Taking its starting point from women's contributions to the French Revolution, this anthology goes beyond any particular historical, European or American context and expands its scope in space and time to an all-inclusive global theme, namely the contributions of radical women towards an ever-changing world and its revolutionary transformations everywhere. The edited essays by diverse contributors explore a wide platform of women's revolutionary involvements and elucidate the broad range of contributions by women scholars, scientists and activists to movements of social transformation, as well as to a re-examination of established methods of cultural analysis from enlightened liberalism to Marxism. The contributions of women scholars and activists from Africa, Asia and Latin America are particularly significant in that they transcend and expand European/North American feminism as relevant primarily to its own socio-cultural context and focus on women acting in terms of their own non-Western traditions and cultures, that is, on non-Western models based on indigenous strategies of social transformation.

Part I: Western Paradigms: France, Russia, The United States. 1. Olympe de Gouges
M.J. Diamond. 2. Louise Michel and the Paris Commune of 1871: The Performance of Revolution
M.J. Diamond. 3. Medicine and Politics: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Paris Commune
J. Harvey. 4. Women and the Russian Revolution
Z. Galili. 5. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Reform or Revolution
R.L. Blumberg. 6. Women in the Welfare Rights Movement: Reform or Revolution
G. West. Part II: Village Traditions/ Modern Situations: Africa, Iran, India. 7. The Women's War of 1929 in South-Eastern Nigeria
F.I. Abaraonye. 8. Anlu Remembered: The Kom Women's Rebellion of 1958-61
E. Shanklin. 9. Black Women Freedom Fighters in South Africa and in the United States: A Comparative Analysis
R. Terborg-Penn. 10. Fighting on All Fronts
Gendered Spaces, Ethnic Boundaries, the Nigerian Civil War
O. Nnaemeka. 11. Women and the Iranian Revolution: A Village Case Study
M.E. Hegland. 12. Indigenous Feminism, Tribal Radicalism and Grassroots Mobilization in India
A. Basu. Part III: Socialist Transformations in Latin America and Cuba. 13. Women in Revolutionary Movements: Changing Patterns of Latin American Guerrilla Struggle
L.M. Lobao. 14. Women and Political Violence in Contemporary Peru
J. Lazaro. 15. Discursive Tensions and the Subject of Discourse in I, Rigoberta Menchu
F. Negron-Muntaner. 16. The Political-Libidinal Economy of the Socialist Female Body: Flesh and Blood, Work and Ideas
S. Bell. Part IV: Women in China from Mao to Market Reforms. 17. Reflections on Women in the Chinese Revolution
M.B. Young. 18. The Other Goes to Market: Gender, Sexuality, and Unruliness in Post-Mao China
L. Schein. Part V: By way of Conclusion. 19. Community and Resistance in Women's Political Cultures
T. Kaplan.