Gender History in a Transnational Perspective : : Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders / / ed. by Oliver Janz, Daniel Schönpflug.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Blom, Ida,; Budde, Gunilla,; Carlier, Julie,; Cova, Anne,; Kundrus, Birthe,; Offen, Karen,; Rendall, Jane,; Schaper, Ulrike,; Thane, Pat,; Thébaud, Françoise,; Zimmermann, Susan,
• HerausgeberIn: Janz, Oliver,; Schönpflug, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

Recent debates have used the concept of “transnational history” to broaden research on historical subjects that transcend national boundaries and encourage a shift away from official inter-state interactions to institutions, groups, and actors that have been obscured. This approach proves particularly fruitful for the dynamic field of global gender and women’s history. By looking at the restless lives and work of women’s activists in informal border-crossings, ephemeral NGOs, the lower management of established international organizations, and other global networks, this volume reflects the potential of a new perspective that allows for a more adequate analysis of transnational activities. By pointing out cultural hierarchies, the vicissitudes of translation and re-interpretation, and the ambiguity of intercultural exchange, this volume demonstrates the critical potential of transnational history. It allows us to see the limits of universalist and cosmopolitan claims so dear to many historical actors and historians.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Understanding International Feminisms as ‘Transnational’ – an Anachronism? May Wright Sewall and the Creation of the International Council of Women, 1889–1904 -- Chapter 2 The National Councils of Women in France, Italy and Portugal: Comparisons and Entanglements, 1888–1939 -- 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) -- 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) -- Chapter 5 How Did Women Use the Vote? Women and Transnational Politics in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 6 A Transnational Career? The Republican and Utopian Politics of Frances Wright (1795–1852) -- Chapter 7 What is a Transnational Life? Some Thoughts about Marguerite Thibert’s Career and Life (1886–1982) -- Chapter 8 Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Female Opera Singers in Britain and Germany in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 9 Gender, Class, Race and Sexuality: A Transnational Approach to Legislation on Venereal Diseases, 1880s–1940s -- Chapter 10 Transgressing the Colour Line: Policing Colonial ‘Miscegenation’ -- Chapter 11 Sex Drives, Bride Prices and Divorces: Legal Policy Concerning Gender Relations in German Cameroon, 1884–1916 -- Index