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Transnational women’s networks and solidarity between the Tricontinental, OSPAAAL, and Socialist Bloc (1966–90)

2025/01/02 by Alberto García Molinero · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Communism, Protests, Social Movements #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #Historical Gender and Feminism Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/27708888.2025.2521998

openalex publication_date 2025/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/14

Abstract

This article examines the 1966 Tricontinental Conference held in Havana based on documents from the archives of the Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL), analyzing how the organization fostered connections with prominent communist women in the Eastern Bloc, most notably activists affiliated with the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF). In doing so, the work explores the multiplicity of transnational connections between the Global South and East. The underexplored genealogies introduced by a historical examination of the female exchanges fostered by the Tricontinental movement help reveal a wide range of networks where the Socialist Bloc and the Global South also interacted with other spaces such as the United Nations, composing a little-known framework of remarkable interest for the historiographical renewal of transnational gender studies in the context of the Cold War.

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