1st Edition

Globalizing Feminisms, 1789- 1945

Edited By Karen Offen Copyright 2009
472 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

472 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This definitive Reader presents a coherent, comprehensive, comparative, and much-needed collective history of women’s activism throughout the world.   Including key pieces on the history of feminism from an international group of scholars, the book charts feminists’ attempts to restore a balance of power between the sexes against a backdrop of huge cultural, social and political transitions... Read more

Series editor’s preface  Acknowledgements  Signposts - Chronology  Introduction Karen Offen  Part I: Opening Out National Histories of Feminisms  1 Was Mary Wollstonecraft a Feminist? Karen Offen  2 Re-Rooting American Women’s Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848 Nancy Hewitt  3 Liberty, Equality, Morality: The Attempt to Sustain an International Campaign against the Double Sexual Standard Anne Summers   4 "To Educate Women into Rebellion": Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Creation of a Transatlantic Network of Radical Suffragists Sandra Stanley Holton  5 Women’s Rights, Feminism, and Suffragism in Japan, 1870-1925 Barbara Molony  Part II: Rethinking Feminist Action in Religious and Denominational Contexts  6 Feminism and Protestantism in the 19th Century: First Encounters 1830-1900 Florence Rochefort  7 From Fredrika Bremer to Ellen Key: Calling, Gender and the Emancipation Debate in Sweden, c. 1830-1900 Inger Hammar  8 Indian Christian Women and Indigenous Feminism, c. 1850-1920 Padma Anagol  9 Settler Anxieties, Indigenous Peoples, and Women’s Suffrage in the Colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and Hawai’i, 1888 to 1902 Patricia Grimshaw  10 Challenging Traditions: Denominational Feminisms in Britain, 1910-1920 Jacqueline R. DeVries  Part III: Birthing International Feminist Initiatives in an Age of Nationalisms and Imperialisms  11 Constructing Internationalism: The Case of Transnational Women’s Organizations, 1888-1945 Leila J. Rupp  12 The Challenge of Multinational Empire for the International Women’s Movement: The Habsburg Monarchy and the Development of Feminist Inter/National Politics Susan Zimmerman  13 The Other ‘Awakening’: The Emergence of Women’s Movements in the Modern Middle East, 1900-1940 Ellen L. Fleischmann  14 Latin American Feminism and the Transnational Arena Francesca Miller  15 Internationalizing Married Women’s Nationality: The Hague Campaign of 1930 Ellen Carol DuBois  16 Inventing Commonwealth and Pan-Pacific Feminisms: Australian Women’s Internationalist Activism in the 1920s-30s Angela Woollacott  Part IV: Reconceptualizing Historical Knowledge through Feminist Historical Perspectives  17 Feminism, Social Science, and the Meanings of Modernity: The Debate on the Origin of the Family in Europe and the United States, 1860-1914 Ann Taylor Allen  18 Women’s Suffrage and Revolution in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917 Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild  19 Women’s Suffrage in China: Challenging Scholarly Conventions Louise Edwards  20 Rethinking the Socialist Construction and International Career of the Concept "Bourgeois Feminism" Marilyn J. Boxer  Suggested Further Reading

 

Biography

Karen Offen is a historian and independent scholar, affiliated as a Senior Scholar with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University. Her previous publications include European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History (2000).

Globalizing Feminisms is a landmark book. Informative, stimulating and challenging, it reveals how the history of feminisms worldwide is integral to modernity. - June Purvis, Times Higher Education

"Globalizing Feminisms remains a useful primer on the intellectual and political history of feminism. It not only offers provocative, well-researched case studies but also the all-important exhortation to remain critical of dominant epistemologies and the historical narratives they engender." - Seneca Joyner, Northeastern University, USA