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Cover of Women in Transnational History

Women in Transnational History Connecting the local and the global

  • Published: 28 Apr 2016
  • DOI: 10.4324/9781315626802
  • Print ISBN: 9781138905764
  • eBook ISBN: 9781315626802

Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of women’s history, exploring how cross-border connections and global developments since the nineteenth century have shaped diverse women’s lives and the gendered social, cultural, political and economic histories of specific localities.

The book is divided into three thematically organised parts, covering gendered histories of transnational networks, women’s agency in the intersecting histories of imperialisms and nationalisms and the concept of localizing the global and globalizing the local. Discussing a broad spectrum of topics, from the politics of dress in Philippine mission stations in the early twentieth century to the shifting food practices of British women during the Second World War, the chapters bring women to the centre of the writing of new transnational histories.

Illustrated with images and figures, this book throws new light on key global themes from the perspective of women’s and gender history. Written by an international team of editors and contributors, it is a valuable and timely resource for students and researchers of both women’s history and transnational and global history.

Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Clare Midgley; Alison Twells; Julie Carlier
  • Gendered histories of transnational networks and connections
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      Indian feminist Pandita Ramabai and transnational liberal religious networks in the nneteenth-century world By Clare Midgley
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      The International Labour Organization, transnational women’s networks, and the question of unpaid work in the interwar world By Susan Zimmermann
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      Reimagining Greenham, or the transnationality of the nation in activist women’s narratives in 1980s Japan By Ulrike Wöhr
  • Women’s agency in the intersecting histories of imperialisms and nationalisms
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      ‘New women’, American imperialism, and Filipina nationalism: The politics of dress in Philippine mission stations, 1898–1940 By Laura R. Prieto
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      The woman question and the national question in the Russian Empire: Interconnections between central and borderland women’s suffrage organizations during the First Russian Revolution, 1905–1907 By Olga Shnyrova
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      The Italian Empire ‘at home’: Fascist girls, imperial propaganda and the racialized memory of Italy, 1937–2007 By Barbara Spadaro
  • Localizing the global/globalizing the local
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      Total war, global market and local impact: British women’s shifting food practices during the Second World War By Natacha Chevalier
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      The local and the global in women’s organizing in the Pacific region, 1950s–1990s By Patricia Grimshaw; Hannah Loney
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      Women at the intersection of the local and the global in schools and community history in Britain since the 1980s By Alison Twells
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