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.

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2001

ISBN

9780333977644

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Gender Studies

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
Part I Legacies of Imperialism
1 British Women, Women’s Rights and Empire, 1790–1850
2 Nationalism, Colonialism and Women: the Case of the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Japan
3 Reading the Silences: Suffrage Activists and Race in Nineteenth- Century Settler Societies
4 Women, Individual Human Rights, Community Rights: Tensions within the Papua New Guinea State
5 NaWaHine Kapu: Divine Hawaiian Women
6 Reconciling Our Mothers’ Lives: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Women Coming Together
7 Margaret Mead and the Ambiguities of Sexual Citizenship for Women
Part II Negotiating National Citizenship
8 Re-Rooting American Women’s Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848
9 Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship Law and National Identity: Gendering the Nation-State in France and Germany, 1871–1918
10 Women’s Rights, Gender and Citizenship in Tsarist Russia, 1860–1920: the Question of Difference
12 From Communal Family Rights to Individual Rights in Women’s National Citizenship in Norway, 1888–1950
13 Social Citizenship and Women’s Right to Work in Postwar America
14 The Status of Widows in Bangladesh
Part III Women Working Internationally
15 Nationalism and Feminism in the Black Atlantic
16 Women’s Rights or Human Rights? International Feminism between the Wars
17 From Self-Determination via Protection to Equality via Non-Discrimination: Defining Women’s Rights at the League of Nations and the United Nations
18 South Sudanese Refugee Women: Questioning the Past, Imagining the Future
19 Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Grassroots Women Redefine Citizenship in a Global Context
Index