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Women's Activism : Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present.

Von: de Haan, FranciscaMitwirkende(r): Allen, Margaret | Purvis, June | Daskalova, KrassimiraMaterialtyp: TextTextSprache: EnglischReihen: Women's and Gender History SeriesVerlag: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013Copyright-Datum: ©2013Auflage: 1st edBeschreibung: 1 online resource (225 pages)Inhaltstyp: Text Medientyp: Computermedien Datenträgertyp: Online ResourceISBN: 9781136171901Schlagwörter: Feminism -- History | Women -- Political activity -- HistoryGenre/Form: Fernzugriff | Andere physische Formen: Print version: : Women's ActivismOnline-Ressourcen: Volltext
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Cover -- Women's Activism: Global Perspectives From the 1890s to the Present -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Transnational Women's Activism -- 1. Overcoming Hierarchies Through Internationalism: May Wright Sewall's Engagement with the International Council of Women (1888-1904) -- 2. Transnational Mentoring: The Impact of Sarojini Naidu's 1924 Visit to South Africa on Cissie Gool and Women's Leadership -- 3. 'Spectacular Feminism': The International History of Women, World Citizenship and Human Rights -- 4. Cold War Internationalisms, Nationalisms and the Yugoslav-soviet Split: The Union of Italian Women and the Antifascist Women's Front of Yugoslavia -- Part II: 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 -- 6. The Trials and Tribulations of a Black Woman Leader: Lilian Ngoyi and the South African Liberation Struggle -- 7. East Bengal Women's Education, Literature and Journalism: From the Late Nineteenth Century Through the 1960s -- 8. Fighting the Double Moral Standard in Edwardian Britain: Suffragette Militancy, Sexuality and the Nation in the Writings of the Early Twentieth-century British Feminist Christabel Pankhurst -- 9. Housewives-lib and Co-op in Japan (1970s-1990s) -- Part III: 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 -- 11.'A Breach of Confidence by Their Greatly Beloved Principal': A Furore at Women's Christian College, Chennai, India, 1940 -- 12. Confronting 'race': French Feminism's Struggle to Become Global -- Index.
Zusammenfassung: Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world. They 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. 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.

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Cover -- Women's Activism: Global Perspectives From the 1890s to the Present -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Transnational Women's Activism -- 1. Overcoming Hierarchies Through Internationalism: May Wright Sewall's Engagement with the International Council of Women (1888-1904) -- 2. Transnational Mentoring: The Impact of Sarojini Naidu's 1924 Visit to South Africa on Cissie Gool and Women's Leadership -- 3. 'Spectacular Feminism': The International History of Women, World Citizenship and Human Rights -- 4. Cold War Internationalisms, Nationalisms and the Yugoslav-soviet Split: The Union of Italian Women and the Antifascist Women's Front of Yugoslavia -- Part II: 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 -- 6. The Trials and Tribulations of a Black Woman Leader: Lilian Ngoyi and the South African Liberation Struggle -- 7. East Bengal Women's Education, Literature and Journalism: From the Late Nineteenth Century Through the 1960s -- 8. Fighting the Double Moral Standard in Edwardian Britain: Suffragette Militancy, Sexuality and the Nation in the Writings of the Early Twentieth-century British Feminist Christabel Pankhurst -- 9. Housewives-lib and Co-op in Japan (1970s-1990s) -- Part III: 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 -- 11.'A Breach of Confidence by Their Greatly Beloved Principal': A Furore at Women's Christian College, Chennai, India, 1940 -- 12. Confronting 'race': French Feminism's Struggle to Become Global -- Index.

Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world. They 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. 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.

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