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Women's Rights and Human Rights

International Historical Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Patricia Grimshaw

    1. University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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  2. Katie Holmes

    1. Women’s Studies and History, LaTrobe University, Victoria, Australia

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  3. Marilyn Lake

    1. LaTrobe University, Victoria, Australia

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Legacies of Imperialism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. British Women, Women’s Rights and Empire, 1790–1850

      • Clare Midgley
      Pages 3-15

    3. Nationalism, Colonialism and Women: the Case of the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Japan

      • Noriyo Hayakawa
      Pages 16-30

    4. Reading the Silences: Suffrage Activists and Race in Nineteenth-Century Settler Societies

      • Patricia Grimshaw
      Pages 31-48

    5. Women, Individual Human Rights, Community Rights: Tensions within the Papua New Guinea State

      • Anne Dickson-Waiko
      Pages 49-70

    6. Na Wa Hine Kapu: Divine Hawaiian Women

      • Lilikala Kame’eleihiwa
      Pages 71-87

    7. Reconciling Our Mothers’ Lives: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Women Coming Together

      • Jackie Huggins, Kay Saunders, Isabel Tarrago
      Pages 88-104

    8. Margaret Mead and the Ambiguities of Sexual Citizenship for Women

      • Dolores Janiewski
      Pages 105-120

  3. Negotiating National Citizenship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Re-Rooting American Women’s Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848

      • Nancy A. Hewitt
      Pages 123-137

    3. Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship Law and National Identity: Gendering the Nation-State in France and Germany, 1871–1918

      • Leora Auslander
      Pages 138-152

    4. Women’s Rights, Gender and Citizenship in Tsarist Russia, 1860–1920: the Question of Difference

      • Linda Edmondson
      Pages 153-167

    5. Emily’s Dream: a Women’s Memorial Building and a History Without Walls: Citizenship and the Politics of Public Remembrance in 1930s–40s New Zealand

      • Charlotte Macdonald
      Pages 168-183

    6. From Communal Family Rights to Individual Rights in Women’s National Citizenship in Norway, 1888–1950

      • Ida Blom
      Pages 184-198

    7. Social Citizenship and Women’s Right to Work in Postwar America

      • Eileen Boris, Sonya Michel
      Pages 199-219

    8. The Status of Widows in Bangladesh

      • Shirin Akhtar
      Pages 220-228

  4. Women Working Internationally

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. Nationalism and Feminism in the Black Atlantic

      • Deborah Gray White
      Pages 231-242

    3. Women’s Rights or Human Rights? International Feminism between the Wars

      • Karen Offen
      Pages 243-253
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About this book

This international collection of historical work explores the breadth and creativity of women's struggles for human rights, citizenship and social justice across the world. It brings together twenty contributions by scholars in women's history, whose work reflects the global reach of the International Federation for Research in Women's History. In addition to presenting studies by well known scholars in the United States and Europe, the book is distinctive in also bringing the work of scholars from regions such as South and East Asia and the Pacific to the attention of an international audience.

Reviews

'...an excellent resource for those...teaching in the fields of human rights and women's world history.' - Judith P. Zinsser, International History Review

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Patricia Grimshaw

  • Women’s Studies and History, LaTrobe University, Victoria, Australia

    Katie Holmes

  • LaTrobe University, Victoria, Australia

    Marilyn Lake

About the editors

SHIRIN AKHTAR Lecturer, Department of History, Jahangirnager University, Dhaka, Bangladesh LEORA AUSLANDER Lecturer in European History, University of Chicago IDA BLOM Professor of Women's History, University of Bergen, Norway EILEEN BORIS Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Virginia ANNE DICKSON-WAIKO Lecturer in History and Gender Studies, University of Papua, New Guinea LINDA EDMONDSON Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham JANE KANI EDWARD Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto NORIYO HAYAKAWA Lecturer in Gender Studies, Yokohama National University, Japan NANCY HEWITT Professor of History and Women's Studies, Rutgers University JACKIE HUGGINS Deputy Director, ATSI Research Unit, University of Queensland, Australia DELORES JANIEWSKI Senior Lecturer, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand LILIKALA KAME'ELEIHIWA Director of the Centre for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa TEMMA KAPLAN Professor of History and Women's Studies, State University, New York CHARLOTTE MACDONALD History Department, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand SONYA MICHEL Lecturer, History of Women and Gender in the United States, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign CLARE MIDGLEY Senior Lecturer, Women's History and Gender Studies, London Guildhall University KAREN OFFEN Historian affiliated with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University KAY SAUNDERS Reader in History, University of Queensland ISABEL TARRAGO Queensland Premier's Advisor on Women and Reconcilation DEBORAH GRAY WHITE Professor of History, Rutgers University

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