Gender history in a transnational perspective : biographies, networks, gender orders / edited by Oliver Janz and Daniel Schönpflug.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Janz, Oliver, editor.

Schönpflug, Daniel, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--History.

Feminism.

Women--History.

Women.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Gender History in a Transnational Perspective; Gender History in a Transnational Perspective; Gender History in a Transnational Perspective Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Understanding International Feminismsas 'Transnational' - an Anachronism? May Wright Sewall and the Creation of the International Council of Women, 1889-1904 Karen Offen; Chapter 2 The National Councils of Women in France, Italy and Portugal Comparisons and Entanglements, 1888-1939 Anne Cova

Chapter 3 A Forgotten Instance of Women's International Organising The Transnational Feminist Networks of the Women's Progressive Society (1890) and the International Women's Union (1893-1898) Julie CarlierChapter 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 Politicsin the Twentieth Century Pat Thane

Chapter 6 A Transnational Career? The Republican and Utopian Politics of Frances Wright (1795-1852) Jane RendallChapter 7 What is a Transnational Life? Some Thoughts about Marguerite Thibert's Career and Life (1886-1982) Françoise Thébaud; Chapter 8 Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism 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 KundrusChapter 11 Sex Drives, Bride Prices and Divorces Legal Policy Concerning Gender Relations in German Cameroon, 1884-1916 Ulrike Schaper; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785396151

1785396153

9781782382751

1782382755

OCLC:

875096087