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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Karen M Offen |
| ISBN: | 9780415778671 0415778670 9780415778688 0415778689 |
| OCLC Number: | 311789932 |
| Description: | xxxvi, 433 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Opening out national histories of feminisms -- Was Mary Wollstonecraft a feminist? A comparative re-reading of A vindication of the rights of woman, 1792-1992 / Karen Offen -- Re-rooting American women's activism: global perspectives on 1848 / Nancy A. Hewitt -- Liberty, equality, morality: the attempt to sustain an international campaign against the double sexual standard, 1875-1906 / Anne Summers -- "To educate women into rebellion": Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the creation of a transatlantic network of radical suffragists / Sandra Stanley Holton -- Women's rights, feminism, and suffragism in Japan, 1870-1925 / Barbara Molony -- Rethinking feminist action in religious and denominational contexts -- Feminism and Protestantism in nineteenth-century France: first encounters, 1830-1900 / Florence Rochefort -- From Fredrika Bremer to Ellen Key: calling, gender and the emancipation debate in Sweden, c.1830-1900 / Inger Hammar -- Indian Christian women and indigenous feminism, c.1850-c.1920 / Padma Anagol -- Settler anxieties, indigenous peoples, and women's suffrage in the colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and Hawai'i, 1888-1902 / Patricia Grimshaw -- Challenging traditions: denominational feminism in Britain, 1910-1920 / Jacqueline R. de Vries -- Birthing international feminist initiatives in an age of nationalisms and imperialisms -- Constructing internationalism: the case of transnational women's organizations, 1888-1945 / Leila J. Rupp -- The challenge of multinational empire for the international women's movement: the Habsburg Monarchy and the development of feminist inter/national politics / Susan Zimmermann -- The other "awakening": the emergence of women's movements in the modern Middle East, 1900-1940 / Ellen L. Fleischmann -- Latin American feminism and the transnational arena / Francesca Miller -- Internationalizing married women's nationality: the Hague campaign of 1930 / Ellen Carol Dubois -- Inventing Commonwealth and Pan-Pacific feminisms: Australian women's internationalist activism in the 1920s-30s / Angela Woollacott -- Reconceptualizing historical knowledge through feminist historical perspectives -- 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 -- Women's suffrage and revolution in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917 / Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild -- Women's suffrage in China: challenging scholarly conventions / Louise Edwards -- Rethinking the socialist construction and international career of the concept "bourgeois feminism" / Marilyn J. Boxer. |
| Series Title: | Rewriting histories. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Karen Offen. |
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Abstract:
Presents a comprehensive, comparative, and collective history of women's activism throughout the world.
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Globalizing Feminisms is a landmark book. Informative, stimulating and challenging, it reveals how the history of feminisms worldwide is integral to modernity. - June Purvis, Times Higher Education"Globalizing Feminisms remains a useful primer on the intellectual and political history of feminism. It not only offers provocative, well-researched case studies but also the all-important exhortation to remain critical of dominant epistemologies and the historical narratives they engender." - Seneca Joyner, Northeastern University, USA Read more...
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- Feminism -- History.
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- Frauenemanzipation
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