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

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

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 particular...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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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

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