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Cambodian Women's Association

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Cambodian Women's Association was abolished after the victory of the Khmer Rouge. It should not be confused with the Communist Women's Association, which played an important part during the Vietnamese occupation in 1979-89, when it enforced its women's policy through a representative in each village.
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temple complex from bombings. Nou Neou functioned as the president of both the Cambodian Women's Association and the Patriotic Women's Youth Commandos, and under her leadership, the organizations participated in the mobilization of women in the struggle against the Khmer Rouge; though the Cambodian
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The Cambodian Women's Association was a moderate but liberal organization, who wished to expand women's opportunities and place in society without challenging the traditional women's role too much. The association worked for women's rights through various social works, and allied with the moderate
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was a Cambodian women's rights organization, founded in 1949. It was the first women's organization in Cambodia, and are considered the starting point of the women's movement in Cambodia. It was founded by a group of educated upper class women in
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for girls only offered an education to domestics or manufacturer of tourist objects, and only a small minority upper class women had access to higher education at the Collège Sisowath (Lycée Sisowath) and from there to university abroad.
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state feminism of the era, when women where formally given access to higher education, professional life and appointed to political positions.
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Women's Association emphasized that this role was temporary and that women should return to their place as mothers when the war was won.
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was elected president of the Cambodian Women's Association and revitalized the organization. During the war against the
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Jacobsen, Trudy, Lost goddesses: the denial of female power in Cambodian history, NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2008.
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Jacobsen, Trudy, Lost goddesses: the denial of female power in Cambodian history, NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2008.
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Jacobsen, Trudy, Lost goddesses: the denial of female power in Cambodian history, NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2008.
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Jacobsen, Trudy, Lost goddesses: the denial of female power in Cambodian history, NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2008.
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Jacobsen, Trudy, Lost goddesses: the denial of female power in Cambodian history, NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2008.
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Jacobsen, Trudy, Lost goddesses: the denial of female power in Cambodian history, NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2008.
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The Cambodian Women's Association was founded by a circle of educated urban upper class women in
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Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh
Nou Neou
Khmer Rouge
Angkor Wat
Area Handbook for Cambodia
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Organizations established in 1949
Women's rights organizations based in Asia
Women's organizations based in Cambodia
1940s in Cambodia
Women's rights in Cambodia
Voter rights and suffrage organizations

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