global perspectives from the 1890s to the present
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Haan, Francisca de > (ed.)
- Creator
- Allen, Margaret > (ed.)
- Creator
- Purvis, June > (ed.)
- Creator
- Daskalova, Krassimira > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- WER 62 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- sociale bewegingen, feminisme, gelijke behandeling, discriminatie, vrouwenorganisaties, mensenrechten, racisme, kolonialisme, internationaal, Australië, Bangladesh, Europa, Frankrijk, India, Japan, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Zuid-Afrika, politici, UN, essay, bundel
- Description
- Collection of twelve essays 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. Part one brings together four essays about organized women’s activism across borders. The chapters in part two focus on the variety of women’s activism and explore women’s activism in different national and political contexts. And part three explores the changing relationships and inequalities among women. This book addresses women’s internationalism and struggle for their rights in the international arena: 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 and France. .Part 1: Transnational Women’s Activism 1. ‘Overcoming Hierarchies through Internationalism : May Wright Sewall’s Engagement with the International Council of Women (1888-1904)’ Karen Offen 2. ‘Transnational mentoring: the impact of Sarojini Naidu's 1924 visit to South Africa on Cissie Gool and women's leadership’ Patricia van der Spuy and Lindsay Clowes 3. 'Spectacular Feminism': The International History of Women, World Citizenship and Human Rights Glenda Sluga 4. ‘Cold War Internationalisms, Nationalisms and the Yugoslav-Soviet Split: The Union of Italian Women and the Antifascist Women's Front of Yugoslavia’ Chiara Bonfiglioli Part 2: Varieties of Women’s Activism 5. 'We are equal to men in ability to do anything!': African Jamaican women and citizenship in the interwar years Henrice Altink 6. ‘The trials and tribulations of a black woman leader: Lilian Ngoyi and the South African liberation struggle’ Barbara Caine 7. ‘East Bengal Women’s Education, Literature and Journalism: From the Late Nineteenth Century Through the 1960s’ Shirin Akhtar 8. ‘Fighting the Double Moral Standard in Edwardian Britain: Suffragette Militancy, Sexuality and the Nation in the Writings of the Early Twentieth-Century Century British Feminist, Christabel Pankhurst' June Purvis 9. ‘Housewives-Lib and Co-op in Japan (1970s-1990s)' Kiyoko Yamaguchi Part 3: Changing Relationships between ‘Unequal Sisters’ 10. ‘Plenty European ladies told me you should give me fair place same as everybody’: Gender, race and Aboriginal domestic service’ Victoria Haskins 11. 'A Breach of Confidence by Their Greatly Beloved Principal': A Furore at Women’s Christian College, Chennai, India, 1940. Margaret Allen 12. ‘Confronting ‘Race’: French Feminism’s Struggle to Become Global’ Jennifer Duncan