This international collection of historical work explores the breadth and creativity of women's struggles for human rights, citizenship and social justice across the world. It brings together twenty contributions by scholars in women's history, whose work reflects the global reach of the International Federation for Research in Women's History. In addition to presenting studies by well known scholars in the United States and Europe, the book is distinctive in also bringing the work of scholars from regions such as South and East Asia and the Pacific to the attention of an international audience.…mehr
This international collection of historical work explores the breadth and creativity of women's struggles for human rights, citizenship and social justice across the world. It brings together twenty contributions by scholars in women's history, whose work reflects the global reach of the International Federation for Research in Women's History. In addition to presenting studies by well known scholars in the United States and Europe, the book is distinctive in also bringing the work of scholars from regions such as South and East Asia and the Pacific to the attention of an international audience.
SHIRIN AKHTAR Lecturer, Department of History, Jahangirnager University, Dhaka, Bangladesh LEORA AUSLANDER Lecturer in European History, University of Chicago IDA BLOM Professor of Women's History, University of Bergen, Norway EILEEN BORIS Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Virginia ANNE DICKSON-WAIKO Lecturer in History and Gender Studies, University of Papua, New Guinea LINDA EDMONDSON Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham JANE KANI EDWARD Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto NORIYO HAYAKAWA Lecturer in Gender Studies, Yokohama National University, Japan NANCY HEWITT Professor of History and Women's Studies, Rutgers University JACKIE HUGGINS Deputy Director, ATSI Research Unit, University of Queensland, Australia DELORES JANIEWSKI Senior Lecturer, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand LILIKALA KAME'ELEIHIWA Director of the Centre for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa TEMMA KAPLAN Professor of History and Women's Studies, State University, New York CHARLOTTE MACDONALD History Department, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand SONYA MICHEL Lecturer, History of Women and Gender in the United States, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign CLARE MIDGLEY Senior Lecturer, Women's History and Gender Studies, London Guildhall University KAREN OFFEN Historian affiliated with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University KAY SAUNDERS Reader in History, University of Queensland ISABEL TARRAGO Queensland Premier's Advisor on Women and Reconcilation DEBORAH GRAY WHITE Professor of History, Rutgers University
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Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; M.Lake, K.Holmes & P.Grimshaw PART I: LEGACIES OF IMPERIALISM British Women, Women's Rights and Empire, 1790-1850; C.Midgley Nationalism, Colonialism and Women: The Case of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Japan; N.Hayakawa Reading the Silences: Suffrage Activists and Race in Nineteenth-Century Settler Societies; P.Grimshaw Women, Individual Human Rights, Community Rights: Tensions within the Papua New Guinea State; A.Dickson-Waiko Na-Wa-Hine Kapu: Divine Hawaiian Women; L.Kame'eleihiwa Reconciling Our Mothers' Lives: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Women Coming Together; J.Huggins, K.Saunders & I.Tarrago Margaret Mead and the Ambiguities of Sexual Citizenship for Women; D.Janiewski PART II: NEGOTIATING NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP Rerooting American Women's Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848; N.Hewitt Women's Suffrage, Citizenship Law and National Identity: Gendering the Nation-State in France and Germany, 1871-1918; L.Auslander Gender and Citizenship in Russia, 1860-1920: Issues of Equality and Difference; L.Edmondson Emily's Dream: A Women's Memorial Building and a History without Walls: Citizenship and the Politics of Remembrance in 1930-40s New Zealand; C.Macdonald From Family Rights to Individual Rights in Women's National Citizenship in Norway, 1888-1905; I.Blom Social Citizenship and Women's Right to Work in Postwar America; E.Boris & S.Michel The Status of Widows in Bangladesh; S.Akhtar PART III: WOMEN WORKING INTERNATIONALLY Nationalism and Feminism in the Black Atlantic; D.G.White Women's Rights of Human Rights? International Feminism between the Wars; K.Offen From Self-Determination (via Protection) to Equality (via Non-Discrimination): Defining Women's Rights at the League of Nations and the United Nations; M.Lake South Sudanese Refugee Women: Questioning the Past, Imagining the Future; J.K.Edward Women's Rights as Human Rights: Grassroots Women Redefine Citizenship in a Global Context;T.Kaplan Select Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; M.Lake, K.Holmes & P.Grimshaw PART I: LEGACIES OF IMPERIALISM British Women, Women's Rights and Empire, 1790-1850; C.Midgley Nationalism, Colonialism and Women: The Case of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Japan; N.Hayakawa Reading the Silences: Suffrage Activists and Race in Nineteenth-Century Settler Societies; P.Grimshaw Women, Individual Human Rights, Community Rights: Tensions within the Papua New Guinea State; A.Dickson-Waiko Na-Wa-Hine Kapu: Divine Hawaiian Women; L.Kame'eleihiwa Reconciling Our Mothers' Lives: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Women Coming Together; J.Huggins, K.Saunders & I.Tarrago Margaret Mead and the Ambiguities of Sexual Citizenship for Women; D.Janiewski PART II: NEGOTIATING NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP Rerooting American Women's Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848; N.Hewitt Women's Suffrage, Citizenship Law and National Identity: Gendering the Nation-State in France and Germany, 1871-1918; L.Auslander Gender and Citizenship in Russia, 1860-1920: Issues of Equality and Difference; L.Edmondson Emily's Dream: A Women's Memorial Building and a History without Walls: Citizenship and the Politics of Remembrance in 1930-40s New Zealand; C.Macdonald From Family Rights to Individual Rights in Women's National Citizenship in Norway, 1888-1905; I.Blom Social Citizenship and Women's Right to Work in Postwar America; E.Boris & S.Michel The Status of Widows in Bangladesh; S.Akhtar PART III: WOMEN WORKING INTERNATIONALLY Nationalism and Feminism in the Black Atlantic; D.G.White Women's Rights of Human Rights? International Feminism between the Wars; K.Offen From Self-Determination (via Protection) to Equality (via Non-Discrimination): Defining Women's Rights at the League of Nations and the United Nations; M.Lake South Sudanese Refugee Women: Questioning the Past, Imagining the Future; J.K.Edward Women's Rights as Human Rights: Grassroots Women Redefine Citizenship in a Global Context;T.Kaplan Select Bibliography Index
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