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Women’s Activism Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present

  • Published: 21 Nov 2012
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780203081143
  • Print ISBN: 9780415535755
  • eBook ISBN: 9780203081143

Women’s Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world to look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies – as individuals; in international women’s organizations; as political leaders; and in global forums such as the United Nations.

The book is divided into three parts. Part I brings together four essays about organized women’s activism across borders. The chapters in Part II focus on the variety of women’s activism, and explore women’s activism in different national and political contexts. Part III explores the changing relationships and inequalities among women.

This book addresses women’s internationalism and struggle for their rights in national and international arenas. It deals with racism and colonialism in Australia, India and Europe; women’s movements and political activism in South Africa, Eastern Bengal (Bangladesh), the United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, Yugoslavia and France, and is essential reading for anyone interested in women’s history and the history of activism in general.

Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Francisca de Haan; Margaret Allen; June Purvis; Krassimira Daskalova
  • Transnational women’s activism
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      Overcoming hierarchies through internationalism: May Wright Sewall’s engagement with the International Council of Women (1888–1904) By Karen Offen
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      Transnational mentoring: The impact of Sarojini Naidu’s 1924 visit to South Africa on Cissie Gool and women’s leadership 1 By Patricia van der Spuy; Lindsay Clowes
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      ‘Spectacular feminism’: The international history of women, world citizenship and human rights 1 By Glenda Sluga
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      Cold War internationalisms, nationalisms and the Yugoslav-Soviet split: The Union of Italian Women and the Antifascist Women’s Front of Yugoslavia By Chiara Bonfiglioli
  • Varieties of women’s activism
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      ‘We are equal to men in ability to do anything!’: African Jamaican women and citizenship in the interwar years By Henrice Altink
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      The trials and tribulations of a black woman leader: Lilian Ngoyi and the South African liberation struggle By Barbara Caine
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      East Bengal women’s education, literature and journalism: From the late nineteenth century through the 1960s By Shirin Akhtar
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      Fighting the double moral standard in Edwardian Britain: Suffragette militancy, sexuality and the nation in the writings of the early twentieth-century British feminist Christabel Pankhurst By June Purvis
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      Housewives-Lib and Co-op in Japan (1970s–1990s) By Kiyoko Yamaguchi
  • Changing relationships between ‘unequal sisters’
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      ‘Plenty European ladies told me you should give me fair place same as everybody’: Gender, race and Aboriginal domestic service By Victoria Haskins
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      ‘A Breach of confidence by their greatly beloved principal’: A furore at Women’s Christian College, Chennai, India, 1940 1 By Margaret Allen
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      Confronting ‘race’: French feminism’s struggle to become global By Jennifer S. Duncan
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