This article explores the relationship between East Timorese women's activism and the international women's movement within the context of East Timor's struggle for independence from Indonesian military occupation (1975-1999). It examines the experiences and activism of several diaspore East Timorese women in international circles that converged around feminist solidarity and women's human rights in the 1980s and 1990s. The article argues that these women played an important, yet underappreciated role in East Timor's struggle for national self-determination.
Themanummer met artikelen over onder meer de natie, Servisch nationalisme, seksueel geweld in oorlogen, nationalisme en de vrouwenbeweging in Spanje aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw, nationale identeit in Finland, feminisme en nationalisme in Zuid-Korea, geschiedschrijving over de Koude Oorlog, de relatie tussen Israelis en overlevenden van de Holocaust, nationalisme in de (post) Sovjet-Unie, etnisch-nationale identiteit, de democratiseringsbeweging en vrouwen in Tonga, de Duitse vrouwenbeweging en de democratiseringsbeweging in Oost-Timor.