networks, biographies, gender orders
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Janz, Oliver > (ed.)
- Creator
- Schönpflug, Daniel > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Schaper, Ulrike
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, vrouwenorganisaties, internationaal, gender, sociale klasse, etniciteit, kiesrecht, politiek, seksualiteit, wetgeving, ziekten, kolonialisme, relaties, zangeressen, historisch, Cameroon, Frankrijk, Italië, Portugal, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, essay
- Description
- This volume reflects the potential of a new perspective that allows for a more adequate analysis of transnational activities, by looking at the lives and work of women’s activists in informal border-crossings, ephemeral NGOs, the lower management of established international organizations, and other global networks. By pointing out cultural hierarchies, the vicissitudes of translation and re-interpretation, and the ambiguity of intercultural exchange, this volume demonstrates the potential of transnational history. Chapter 1. Understanding international feminisms as ‘transnational’ – an anachronism? May Wright Sewall and the creation of the International Council of Women, 1889 to 1904 / Karen Offen: Chapter 2. A forgotten instance of women’s international organizing. The transnational feminist networks of the Women’s Progressive Society (1890) and the International Women’s Union (1893–1898) / Julie Carlier: Chapter 3. The national councils of women in France, Italy and Portugal. Comparisons and entanglements 1888-1939 / Anne Cova: Chapter 4. A struggle over gender, class and the vote: unequal international interactions and the formation of the ‘female International’ of socialist women (1905-1907) / Susan Zimmermann: Chapter 5. How did women use the vote? Women and transnational politics in the twentieth century / Pat Thane: Chapter 6. A transnational career? The republican and utopian politics of Frances Wright (1795–1852) / Jane Rendall: Chapter 7. What is a transnational life? Some thoughts about Marguerite Thibert’s career and life (1886–1982) Françoise Thébaud: Chapter 8. Between nationalism and cosmopolitism: female opera singers in Britain and Germany in the first half of the nineteenth century / Gunilla Budde: Chapter 9. Gender, class, race and sexuality: A transnational approach to legislation on venereal diseases, 1880s–1940s / Ida Blom: Chapter 10. Transgressing the colour line. Policing colonial ‘miscegenation’ / Birthe Kundrus: Chapter 11. Sex drives, bride prices and divorces: Legal policy concerning gender relations in German Cameroon 1884–1916 / Ulrike Schaper