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This reader presents a coherent, comprehensive, comparative, and collective history of women’s activism throughout the world. Including key pieces on the history of feminism from an international group of scholars, the book charts feminists’ attempts to restore a balance of power between the sexes against a backdrop of huge cultural, social and political transitions across the world. The collection covers the period from the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789 – a turning point that gave rise to practical efforts to embody principles of rights, liberty, and equality on behalf of women as well as men – up until the end of World War II. The chapters reach out well beyond Europe and the Americas to examine the history of feminisms in Japan, India, China, the Middle East and Australasia. This diverse body of material is drawn together through a comprehensive general introduction, and individual section introductions. The chapters are also supported by a global timeline of events, and there is a bibliography of further reading. Contents: Part I: Opening Out National Histories of Feminisms 1 Was Mary Wollstonecraft a Feminist? (Karen Offen) 2 Re-Rooting American Women’s Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848 (Nancy Hewitt) 3 Liberty, Equality, Morality: The Attempt to Sustain an International Campaign against the Double Sexual Standard (Anne Summers) 4 "To Educate Women into Rebellion": Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Creation of a Transatlantic Network of Radical Suffragists (Sandra Stanley Holton) 5 Women’s Rights, Feminism, and Suffragism in Japan, 1870-1925 (Barbara Molony) Part II: Rethinking Feminist Action in Religious and Denominational Contexts 6 Feminism and Protestantism in the 19th Century: First Encounters 1830-1900 (Florence Rochefort) 7 From Fredrika Bremer to Ellen Key: Calling, Gender and the Emancipation Debate in Sweden, c. 1830-1900 (Inger Hammar) 8 Indian Christian Women and Indigenous Feminism, c. 1850-1920 (Padma Anagol) 9 Settler Anxieties, Indigenous Peoples, and Women’s Suffrage in the Colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and Hawai’i, 1888 to 1902 (Patricia Grimshaw) 10 Challenging Traditions: Denominational Feminisms in Britain, 1910-1920 (Jacqueline R. DeVries) Part III: Birthing International Feminist Initiatives in an Age of Nationalisms and Imperialisms 11 Constructing Internationalism: The Case of Transnational Women’s Organizations, 1888-1945 (Leila J. Rupp) 12 The Challenge of Multinational Empire for the International Women’s Movement: The Habsburg Monarchy and the Development of Feminist Inter/National Politics (Susan Zimmerman) 13 The Other ‘Awakening’: The Emergence of Women’s Movements in the Modern Middle East, 1900-1940 (Ellen L. Fleischmann) 14 Latin American Feminism and the Transnational Arena (Francesca Miller) 15 Internationalizing Married Women’s Nationality: The Hague Campaign of 1930 (Ellen Carol DuBois) 16 Inventing Commonwealth and Pan-Pacific Feminisms: Australian Women’s Internationalist Activism in the 1920s-30s (Angela Woollacott) Part IV: Reconceptualizing Historical Knowledge through Feminist Historical Perspectives 17 Feminism, Social Science, and the Meanings of Modernity: The Debate on the Origin of the Family in Europe and the United States, 1860-1914 (Ann Taylor Allen) 18 Women’s Suffrage and Revolution in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917 (Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild) 19 Women’s Suffrage in China: Challenging Scholarly Conventions (Louise Edwards) 20 Rethinking the Socialist Construction and International Career of the Concept "Bourgeois Feminism" (Marilyn J. Boxer) |