The Feminist Pacific : International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820-1940 / Rumi Yasutake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yasutake, Rumi, 1958- author.

Series:

Global America series.

Global America Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Hawaii--History.

Feminism.

Feminism--Pacific Area--History.

Feminism--International cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]

Summary:

The Feminist Pacific examines transnational networks in Hawai'i beginning in 1820, with the arrival of American missionary wives, and through the rise of women's internationalism in the interwar years.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1 Women’s Separate Sphere and White Settler Colonialism

2 The Politics of Woman Suffrage in the U.S. Territory of Hawai‘i

3 Territorial Motherhood’s Double-Edged Sword: Women’s Networks and Unequal Sisterhoods

4 Elusive Collaboration for Anglophone Hegemony

5 Forming the Delegation to the 1928 Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference

6 Pan-Pacific Women’s Voices and Global Feminism

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231557474

0231557477

OCLC:

1441719961