The Rise of Women's Transnational Activism
The Rise of Women's Transnational Activism

Author: Marie Sandell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-01-26

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0857726226

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What characterised women's international co-operation in the interwar period? How did female activists from different countries and continents relate to one another? Marie Sandell here explores the changing experiences of women involved in the major international women's organisations - including the International Council of Women, International Alliance of Women, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the International Federation of University Women - as well as the changing compositions and aims of the organisations themselves. Moving beyond an Anglo-American focus, Sandell analyses what the term 'international sisterhood' meant in this broader context, which for the first time included women from the beyond the Western world. Focusing on shifting identities, this book investigates how notions of 'sisterhood' were played out, and contested, during the interwar period and will be invaluable reading for scholars of women's history and twentieth-century world history.

Women's Movements in Asia
Women's Movements in Asia

Author: Mina Roces

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1136968008

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Written by leading international experts, this book provides an overview of the history and current context of feminism in 12 Asian countries. This breadth of coverage, together with suggestions for further study, and an integrated cross-national timeline makes Women's Movements in Asia ideal for use on courses looking at women and feminism in Asia.

Women's Activism and Globalization
Women's Activism and Globalization

Author: Nancy A. Naples

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-04-16

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1135955166

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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism
Women’s Activism and

Author: Barbara Molony

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-02-09

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 147425053X

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Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women's activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings of historical feminism. It is no longer possible to imagine that feminism has ever fostered an unproblematic sisterhood among women blind to race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality and citizenship status. The chapters in this collection modify the "wave" metaphor in some cases and in others re-periodize it. By studying individual movements, they collectively address several themes that advance our understandings of the history of feminism, such as the rejection of "hegemonic" feminism by marginalized feminist groups, transnational linkages among women's organizations, transnational flows of ideas and transnational migration. By analyzing practical activism, the chapters in this volume produce new ways of theorizing feminism and new historical perspectives about the activist locations from which feminist politics emerged. Including histories of feminisms in the United States, Canada, South Africa, India, France, Russia, Japan, Korea, Poland and Chile, Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism provides a truly global re-appraisal of women's movements in the late 20th century.

Women's Activism
Women's Activism

Author: Francisca de Haan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0415535751

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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.

Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective
Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective

Author: Kimberly Jensen

Publisher: Republic of Letters

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789089790385

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This volume brings together the work of historians who consider women as transnational activists from the late 19th century to the years following the Second World War. The authors deepen the understanding of the complex ways in which individuals and organizations sought to achieve goals such as women's rights, peace, racial equality, and medical relief.

Solidarities Beyond Borders
Solidarities Beyond Borders

Author: Pascale Dufour

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2010-08-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0774859520

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Scholars of social movements tend to overlook the achievements and political significance of women's movements. Through theoretical discussions and empirical examples, Solidarities Beyond Borders demonstrates the creativity and dynamism of transnational feminist and women's groups around the world. These timely case studies from North America, Latin America, and Southeast Asia explore the benefits and challenges of extending ties beyond national borders and disciplinary boundaries. The contributors not only bring to light the opportunities and challenges that globalization poses for transnationalizing women's movements, they offer important strategic, conceptual, and methodological lessons for all social movements.

Women in Transnational History
Women in Transnational History

Author: Clare Midgley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-28

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1317236130

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Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of women’s history, exploring how cross-border connections and global developments since the nineteenth century have shaped diverse women’s lives and the gendered social, cultural, political and economic histories of specific localities. The book is divided into three thematically-organised parts, covering gendered histories of transnational networks, women’s agency in the intersecting histories of imperialisms and nationalisms, and the concept of localizing the global and globalizing the local. Discussing a broad spectrum of topics from the politics of dress in Philippine mission stations in the early twentieth century to the shifting food practices of British women during the Second World War, the chapters bring women to the centre of the writing of new transnational histories. Illustrated with images and figures, this book throws new light on key global themes from the perspective of women’s and gender history. Written by an international team of editors and contributors, it is a valuable and timely resource for students and researchers of both women’s history and transnational and global history.

Digital Feminisms
Digital Feminisms

Author: Christina Scharff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1315406209

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The relative rise or decline of feminist movements across the globe has been debated by feminist scholars and activists for a long time. In recent years, however, these debates have gained renewed momentum. Rapid technological change and increased use of digital media have raised questions about how digital technologies change, influence, and shape feminist politics. This book interrogates the digital interface of transnational protest movements and local activism in feminist politics. Examining how global feminist politics is articulated at the nexus of the transnational/national, we take contemporary German protest culture as a case study for the manner in which transnational feminist activism intersects with the national configuration of feminist political work. The book explores how movements and actions from outside Germany’s borders circulate digitally and resonate differently in new local contexts, and further, how these border-crossings transform grass-roots activism as it goes digital. This book was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.

Global Feminism
Global Feminism

Author: Myra Marx Ferree

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2006-07

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0814727352

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Since the UN's World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975, feminists around the world have campaigned with increasing success for recognition of women's full personhood and empowerment. This book explores the social and political developments that have energised this movement.