Gender History in a Transnational Perspective

Gender History in a Transnational Perspective

Gender History in a Transnational Perspective Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders

Gender History in a Transnational Perspective Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders

Contents

Contents

Introduction

Introduction

Chapter 1 Understanding International Feminismsas ‘Transnational’ – an Anachronism? May Wright Sewall and the Creation of the International Council of Women, 1889–1904 Karen Offen

Chapter 1 Understanding International Feminismsas ‘Transnational’ – an Anachronism? May Wright Sewall and the Creation of the International Council of Women, 1889–1904 Karen Offen

Chapter 2 The National Councils of Women in France, Italy and Portugal Comparisons and Entanglements, 1888–1939 Anne Cova

Chapter 2 The National Councils of Women in France, Italy and Portugal Comparisons and Entanglements, 1888–1939 Anne Cova

Chapter 3 A Forgotten Instance of Women’s International Organising The Transnational Feminist Networks of the Women’s Progressive Society (1890) and the International Women’s Union (1893–1898) Julie Carlier

Chapter 3 A Forgotten Instance of Women’s International Organising The Transnational Feminist Networks of the Women’s Progressive Society (1890) and the International Women’s Union (1893–1898) Julie Carlier

Chapter 4 A Struggle over Gender, Class and the Vote Unequal International Interactions and the Formation of the ‘Female International’ of Socialist Women (1905–1907) Susan Zimmermann

Chapter 4 A Struggle over Gender, Class and the Vote Unequal International Interactions and the Formation of the ‘Female International’ of Socialist Women (1905–1907) Susan Zimmermann

Chapter 5 How Did Women Use the Vote? Women and Transnational Politicsin the Twentieth Century Pat Thane

Chapter 5 How Did Women Use the Vote? Women and Transnational Politicsin the Twentieth Century Pat Thane

Chapter 6 A Transnational Career? The Republican and Utopian Politics of Frances Wright (1795–1852) Jane Rendall

Chapter 6 A Transnational Career? The Republican and Utopian Politics of Frances Wright (1795–1852) Jane Rendall

Chapter 7 What is a Transnational Life? Some Thoughts about Marguerite Thibert’s Career and Life (1886–1982) Françoise Thébaud

Chapter 7 What is a Transnational Life? Some Thoughts about Marguerite Thibert’s Career and Life (1886–1982) Françoise Thébaud

Chapter 8 Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism Female Opera Singers in Britain and Germany in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Gunilla Budde

Chapter 8 Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism Female Opera Singers in Britain and Germany in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Gunilla Budde

Chapter 9 Gender, Class, Race and Sexuality A Transnational Approach to Legislation on Venereal Diseases, 1880s–1940s Ida Blom

Chapter 9 Gender, Class, Race and Sexuality A Transnational Approach to Legislation on Venereal Diseases, 1880s–1940s Ida Blom

Chapter 10 Transgressing the Colour Line Policing Colonial ‘Miscegenation’ Birthe Kundrus

Chapter 10 Transgressing the Colour Line Policing Colonial ‘Miscegenation’ Birthe Kundrus

Chapter 11 Sex Drives, Bride Prices and Divorces Legal Policy Concerning Gender Relations in German Cameroon, 1884–1916 Ulrike Schaper

Chapter 11 Sex Drives, Bride Prices and Divorces Legal Policy Concerning Gender Relations in German Cameroon, 1884–1916 Ulrike Schaper

Index

Index

Gender History in a Transnational Perspective

Gender History in a Transnational Perspective