The Rise Of Womens Transnational Activism

Author : Marie Sandell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857726226
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Women's Transnational Activism written by Marie Sandell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What characterised women's international co-operation in the interwar period? How did female activists from different countries and continents relate to one another? Marie Sandell here explores the changing experiences of women involved in the major international women's organisations - including the International Council of Women, International Alliance of Women, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the International Federation of University Women - as well as the changing compositions and aims of the organisations themselves. Moving beyond an Anglo-American focus, Sandell analyses what the term 'international sisterhood' meant in this broader context, which for the first time included women from the beyond the Western world. Focusing on shifting identities, this book investigates how notions of 'sisterhood' were played out, and contested, during the interwar period and will be invaluable reading for scholars of women's history and twentieth-century world history.

Author : Nancy A. Naples
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135955166
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Activism and Globalization written by Nancy A. Naples and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Mina Roces
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136968008
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Movements in Asia written by Mina Roces and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading international experts, this book provides an overview of the history and current context of feminism in 12 Asian countries. This breadth of coverage, together with suggestions for further study, and an integrated cross-national timeline makes Women's Movements in Asia ideal for use on courses looking at women and feminism in Asia.

Author : Francisca de Haan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415535751
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Activism written by Francisca de Haan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world. They look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women's organizations, as political leaders, and in global forums such as the United Nations. This book addresses women's internationalism and struggle for their rights in the international arena; it deals with racism and colonialism in Australia, India and Europe; women's movements and political activism in South Africa, Eastern Bengal (Bangladesh), the United Kingdom, Japan and France.

Author : Myra Marx Ferree
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814727948
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Feminism written by Myra Marx Ferree and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the social and political developments that have energized movements of global feminism Increasingly feminists around the world have successfully campaigned for recognition of women's full personhood and empowerment. Global Feminism explores the social and political developments that have energized this movement. Drawn from an international group of scholars and activists, the authors of these original essays assess both the opportunities that transnationalism has created and the tensions it has inadvertently fostered. By focusing on both the local and global struggles of today's feminist activists this important volume reveals much about women's changing rights, treatment and impact in the global world. Contributors: Melinda Adams, Aida Bagic, Yakin Ertürk, Myra Marx Ferree, Amy G. Mazur, Dorothy E. McBride, Hilkka Pietilä, Tetyana Pudrovska, Margaret Snyder, Sarah Swider, Aili Mari Tripp, Nira Yuval-Davis.

Author : Elizabeth Maier
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547288
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Elizabeth Maier and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a very exciting collection that will fill an important gap in what has emerged in comparative studies of women and Latin American democracies. Maier and Lebon provide provocative overview essays, and the chapters trace a range of cases from Argentina and Brazil to Nicaragua and Venezuela, showing how institutions. leaders and culture all shape the opportunities and challenges women face."---Jane Jaquette, editor of Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America --

Author : Kimberly Jensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789089790378
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective written by Kimberly Jensen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of International Relations, Diplomacy and Intelligence, 14 (History of International Relations Library, 14) Historians are beginning to hone their use of the concept of transnationalism as an analytic tool to understand the ideas, networks, and activities of individuals and organizations working across and above the nation-state. This volume brings together the work of historians who consider women as transnational activists from the late nineteenth century to the years following the Second World War. The authors deepen our understanding of the complex ways in which individuals and organizations sought to achieve goals such as women's rights, peace, racial equality and medical relief. By analyzing the complexities of these women's lives and activism, the authors challenge the traditional narrative of international relations history and broaden our understanding of women's history and activism. Table of Contents Preface by Kathryn Kish Sklar Acknowledgements Table of Contents Introduction, Kimberly Jensen and Erika Kuhlman Mary Clement Leavitt, Japan, and the Transnationalization of the World WCTU, 1886-1912, Elizabeth Dorn Lublin Country by Birth, Country by Marriage: American Women's Transnational War Efforts in Great Britain, 1895-1918, Dana Cooper Localizing the Global: The YWCA Movement in China, 1899 to 1939, Elizabeth A. Littell-Lamb Black Liberation is an International Cause: Charlotta Bass's Transnational Politics, 1914-1952, Anne Rapp Liberal and Conservative Women Transnational Activists and Postwar Reconciliation after the Great War, Erika Kuhlman Feminist Transnational Activism and International Health: The Medical Women's International Association and the American Women's Hospitals, 1919-1948, Kimberly Jensen How to "Make This Pan American Thing Go?" Interwar Debates on U.S. Women's Activism in the Western Hemisphere, Megan Threlkeld Creating a Transnational Identity: The IFUW Confronts Racial and Religious Membership Restrictions in the 1930s, Christy Jo Snider "I Knew the Kind of Work That Was Done For Children": Dr. Martha Eliot and the Origins of UNICEF, Jennifer Morris About the Author(s)/Editor(s) Kimberly Jensen, (Ph.D. History, University of Iowa 1992) is Professor of History and Gender Studies at Western Oregon University. She is the author of Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008). Erika Kuhlman (Ph.D. American Studies, Washington State University 1995) is an Associate Professor of History and Women Studies at Idaho State University. She is the author of Reconstructing Patriarchy after the Great War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Author : Nicola Pratt
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520281764
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embodying Geopolitics written by Nicola Pratt and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When women took to the streets during the mass protests of the Arab Spring, the subject of feminism in the Middle East and North Africa returned to the international spotlight. In the subsequent years, countless commentators treated the region’s gender inequality as a consequence of fundamentally cultural or religious problems. In so doing, they overlooked the specifically political nature of these women’s activism. Moving beyond such culturalist accounts, this book turns to the relations of power in regional and international politics to understand women’s struggles for their rights. Based on over a hundred extensive personal narratives from women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, Nicola Pratt traces women’s activism from national independence through to the Arab uprisings, arguing that activist women are critical geopolitical actors. Weaving together these personal accounts with the ongoing legacies of colonialism, Embodying Geopolitics demonstrates how the production and regulation of gender is integrally bound up with the exercise and organization of geopolitical power, with consequences for women’s activism and its effects.

Author : Barbara Molony
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147425053X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism written by Barbara Molony and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women's activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings of historical feminism. It is no longer possible to imagine that feminism has ever fostered an unproblematic sisterhood among women blind to race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality and citizenship status. The chapters in this collection modify the "wave" metaphor in some cases and in others re-periodize it. By studying individual movements, they collectively address several themes that advance our understandings of the history of feminism, such as the rejection of "hegemonic" feminism by marginalized feminist groups, transnational linkages among women's organizations, transnational flows of ideas and transnational migration. By analyzing practical activism, the chapters in this volume produce new ways of theorizing feminism and new historical perspectives about the activist locations from which feminist politics emerged. Including histories of feminisms in the United States, Canada, South Africa, India, France, Russia, Japan, Korea, Poland and Chile, Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism provides a truly global re-appraisal of women's movements in the late 20th century.

Author : Pascale Dufour
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774859520
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solidarities Beyond Borders written by Pascale Dufour and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of social movements tend to overlook the achievements and political significance of women's movements. Through theoretical discussions and empirical examples, Solidarities Beyond Borders demonstrates the creativity and dynamism of transnational feminist and women's groups around the world. These timely case studies from North America, Latin America, and Southeast Asia explore the benefits and challenges of extending ties beyond national borders and disciplinary boundaries. The contributors not only bring to light the opportunities and challenges that globalization poses for transnationalizing women's movements, they offer important strategic, conceptual, and methodological lessons for all social movements.