Gender History in a Transnational Perspective
Gender History in a Transnational Perspective

Author: Oliver Janz

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1782382755

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Recent debates have used the concept of “transnational history” to broaden research on historical subjects that transcend national boundaries and encourage a shift away from official inter-state interactions to institutions, groups, and actors that have been obscured. This approach proves particularly fruitful for the dynamic field of global gender and women’s history. By looking at the restless lives and work of women’s activists in informal border-crossings, ephemeral NGOs, the lower management of established international organizations, and other global networks, this volume reflects the potential of a new perspective that allows for a more adequate analysis of transnational activities. By pointing out cultural hierarchies, the vicissitudes of translation and re-interpretation, and the ambiguity of intercultural exchange, this volume demonstrates the critical potential of transnational history. It allows us to see the limits of universalist and cosmopolitan claims so dear to many historical actors and historians.

Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective
Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective

Author: Anne Epstein

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1137497769

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With gender as its central focus, this book offers a transnational, multi-faceted understanding of citizenship as legislated, imagined, and exercised since the late eighteenth century. Framed around three crosscutting themes - agency, space and borders - leading scholars demonstrate what historians can bring to the study of citizenship and its evolving relationship with the theory and practice of democracy, and how we can make the concept of citizenship operational for studying past societies and cultures. The essays examine the past interactions of women and men with public authorities, their participation in civic life within various kinds of polities and the meanings they attached to their actions. In analyzing the way gender operated both to promote and to inhibit civic consciousness, action, and practice, this book advances our knowledge about the history of citizenship and the evolution of the modern state.

Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective
Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective

Author: Anne Epstein

Publisher: Red Globe Press

Published: 2016-12-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1137497742

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This book offers a transnational understanding of citizenship since the late eighteenth century. Framed around three themes :agency, space and borders , the authors demonstrate what historians can bring to the study of citizenship and its relationship with the theory and practice of democracy. The essays examine the past interactions of women and men with public authorities, their participation in civic life within various kinds of polities and the meanings they attached to their actions.

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.

Connected Worlds
Connected Worlds

Author: Ann Curthoys

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2006-03-01

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1920942459

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This volume brings together historians of imperialism and race, travel and modernity, Islam and India, the Pacific and the Atlantic to show how a 'transnational' approach to history offers fresh insights into the past. Transnational history is a form of scholarship that has been revolutionising our understanding of history in the last decade. With a focus on interconnectedness across national borders of ideas, events, technologies and individual lives, it moves beyond the national frames of analysis that so often blinker and restrict our understanding of the past. Many of the essays also show how expertise in 'Australian history' can contribute to and benefit from new transnational approaches to history. Through an examination of such diverse subjects as film, modernity, immigration, politics and romance, Connected Worlds weaves an historical matrix which transports the reader beyond the local into a realm which re-defines the meaning of humanity in all its complexity. Contributors include Tony Ballantyne, Desley Deacon, John Fitzgerald, Patrick Wolfe and Angela Woollacott.

Unhinging the National Framework
Unhinging the National Framework

Author: Babs Boter

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-04

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9789088909757

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An exploration of how personal life-stories, when reconstructed as 'transnational lives,' escape the confines of national histories and open up new avenues for interpreting cultural identity, social mobility, and public memory.

Women, Power Relations, and Education in a Transnational World
Women, Power Relations, and Education in a Transnational World

Author: Christine Mayer

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-05-06

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 3030449351

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This edited collection addresses the nexus of gender, power relations, and education from various angles while covering a broad spectrum of the history of education in both time and geographic space. Taking the position that historians of gender and education find the concept of transnationalism very useful for a deeper understanding of historical change and situations, the editors and their contributors employ a transnational perspective to explore the complex and entangled dimensions of a history of education that transcends regional and national boundaries through a variety of approaches (e.g. through exploring new fields of research, sources, questions, perspectives for interpretation, or methodologies). In doing so, they also undertake to open up a transnational global perspective for the historiography of education.

Transnational Perspectives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985
Transnational Perspectives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985

Author: Jen Kennedy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-28

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1000380939

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Transnational Perspecives on Feminism and Art, 1960–1985 is a collection of essential essays that bring transnational feminist praxis into conversation with histories of feminist art in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. The artistic practices and processes examined within these pages all centre on gender and sexual politics as they variously intersect with race, class, sovereignty, Indigeneity, citizenship, and migration at particular historical moments and within specific geopolitical contexts. The book’s central premise is that reconsidering this period from transnational feminist perspectives will enable new thinking about the critical commonalities and differences across heterogeneous and geographically dispersed practices that have contributed to the complex and multifaceted relationship between feminism and art today. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural studies, visual culture, material culture, and gender studies.

Rethinking the Age of Emancipation
Rethinking the Age of Emancipation

Author: Martin Baumeister

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2020-03-20

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1789206332

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Since the end of the nineteenth century, traditional historiography has emphasized the similarities between Italy and Germany as “late nations”, including the parallel roles of “great men” such as Bismarck and Cavour. Rethinking the Age of Emancipation aims at a critical reassessment of the development of these two “late” nations from a new and transnational perspective. Essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examine the discursive relationships among nationalism, war, and emancipation as well as the ambiguous roles of historical protagonists with competing national, political, and religious loyalties.