1st Edition
The Routledge Global History of Feminism
Based on the scholarship of a global team of diverse authors, this wide-ranging handbook surveys the history and current status of pro-women thought and activism over millennia.
The book traces the complex history of feminism across the globe, presenting its many identities, its heated debates, its racism, discussion of religious belief and values, commitment to social change, and the struggles of women around the world for gender justice. Authors approach past understandings and today’s evolving sense of what feminism or womanism or gender justice are from multiple viewpoints. These perspectives are geographical to highlight commonalities and differences from region to region or nation to nation; they are also chronological suggesting change or continuity from the ancient world to our digital age. Across five parts, authors delve into topics such as colonialism, empire, the arts, labor activism, family, and displacement as the means to take the pulse of feminism from specific vantage points highlighting that there is no single feminist story but rather multiple portraits of a broad cast of activists and thinkers.
Comprehensive and properly global, this is the ideal volume for students and scholars of women’s and gender history, women’s studies, social history, political movements and feminism.
Introduction
Bonnie G. Smith and Nova Robinson
Part 1: Feminism, What Is It?
1. Definitions: An Overview
Susan Kingsley Kent
2. Foundations, Elements, Roots
Bonnie G. Smith
3. Varieties of Feminist Activism
Valentine M. Moghadam
4. Feminism as Global Endeavor
Temma Kaplan and Nova Robinson
Part 2: Historical Perspectives
5. The Pre-modern World
Mika Ahuvia and Rena Lauer
6. The Early Modern World
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
7. The Nineteenth Century
Hyaeweol Choi
8. The Twentieth Century
Rumi Yasutake with Nova Robinson
9. The Digital Age and Beyond
Kate Eichhorn
Part 3: Regional Thought and Activism
10. The Pacific
Kirisitina Sailiata and Stephanie Nohelani Teves
11. East Asia
Louise Edwards, Kyungja Jung and Sally McLaren
12. Southeast Asia
Sharon A. Bong
13. South Asia
Ritty Lukose
14. Middle East and North Africa
Pernille Arenfeldt and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
15. Sub-Saharan Africa: Religion
Ousseina D. Alidou
16. Sub-Saharan Africa: Rights
Shireen Hassim
17. Europe and Russia
Maria Bucur
18. Latin America and the Caribbean
Katherine M. Marino
19. North America
Laura K. Muñoz
Part 4: Topics in Feminism I: Politics and Society
20. Political Life and the Law
Mary Hawkesworth
21. Empire and Colonialism
H. Hazel Hahn
22. Decolonization
Todd Shepard
23. Nation and Nationalism
Mrinalini Sinha
24. Socialism
Zsófia Lóránd
25. Democracy
Mona L. Siegel
26. Thoughts: Disability
Maisam Alomar
27. Revolution
Nefertiti Takla
28. War, Peace, and Security
Aili Mari Tripp and Thomas S. Worth
29. Displacement
Zeynep Kıvılcım
Part 5: Topics in Feminism II: Thought, Structures, Culture
30. Intersections, Struggles
Natalie Cisneros
31. Mana Wahine
Georgina Tuari Stewart
32. The Arts
Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
33. Thoughts: The Body and Sexuality
Catherine Phipps
34. Religion
Ali Altaf Mian
35. Race and Ethnicity
Courtney Sato and Randa Tawil
36. Family
Julia Bowes
37. Poverty, Work, and Labor
Annelise Orleck
38. Technology
Cindy Lin
39. Thoughts: Ecofeminism and the Animal World
Laura Murray
Biography
Bonnie G. Smith is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, Rutgers University. She is the author of essays in women’s, gender, European, and world history as well as author, co-author, and editor of numerous books in these fields, including recently Women’s Studies: The Basics and Women in World History since 1450.
Nova Robinson is an Associate Professor of History and International Studies at Seattle University. Her research is situated at the intersection of women’s history, Middle Eastern history, and the history of international governance. Her book Truly Sisters: Arab Women and International Women’s Rights is forthcoming.
