Social Scientist. v 4, no. 40-41 (Nov-Dec 1975) p. 103.


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c9 Women in the Soviet Union, Progress Publishers, ]970.

eo For a good insight on the problem of Chinese women, see Elisabeth Croll, The Women9 s Movement in China, A Selection of Readings 1949-1973, Anglo-Chinese Educational Institute, London 1974.

6 l Rosalind Delmar, ^Fighting Traditions,'" China Now, March 1975, London. ^

€a Ellen Leopold, "The Anomaly of the Housewife", China Now, op. cit., p 4.

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64 For such criticisms, see Jennifer Seymour Whitaker, "Woman of the World: Report from Mexico City13, Foreign Affairs, Vol 54, No 1, October 1975. She writes that although women in the Soviet Union "constitute a majority of the specialized labour force, their participation decreases sharply as they reach upper levels. Only 6% of the heads of industrial enterprises are women. Their representation in the Communist Party... is...about 22%. The number reaching the Party's Central Committee has never been higher than 4% and only one woman has ever been a member of the Presidium.'^ p 1 79.

€6 Susan bontag, "The Third World of Women," Partisan Review, No ^,1973, p 184.

6 6 Fidel Castro, The Revolution Has in Cuban Women Today an Impressive Political Force, a pamplilet of the Institute Cubano del Libro, Habana, 1974.

«7 ibid., p 12.

e9 Ibid.,?? 15-16.

69 Delrnar, op. cit., p 4.

7^ Quoted in Elisabeth Croll, op, cit., p 88.

71 VI Lenin, On the Emancipation of Women, op. cit., p 84.

72 Gough, "The Origin of the Family", op. cit., p 75.



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