Women's Rights and Human Rights
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Women's Rights and Human Rights

International Historical Perspectives

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Women's Rights and Human Rights

International Historical Perspectives

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Notes on the Contributors
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I Legacies of Imperialism
  7. 1 British Women, Women’s Rights and Empire, 1790–1850
  8. 2 Nationalism, Colonialism and Women: the Case of the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Japan
  9. 3 Reading the Silences: Suffrage Activists and Race in Nineteenth- Century Settler Societies
  10. 4 Women, Individual Human Rights, Community Rights: Tensions within the Papua New Guinea State
  11. 5 NaWaHine Kapu: Divine Hawaiian Women
  12. 6 Reconciling Our Mothers’ Lives: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Women Coming Together
  13. 7 Margaret Mead and the Ambiguities of Sexual Citizenship for Women
  14. Part II Negotiating National Citizenship
  15. 8 Re-Rooting American Women’s Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848
  16. 9 Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship Law and National Identity: Gendering the Nation-State in France and Germany, 1871–1918
  17. 10 Women’s Rights, Gender and Citizenship in Tsarist Russia, 1860–1920: the Question of Difference
  18. 12 From Communal Family Rights to Individual Rights in Women’s National Citizenship in Norway, 1888–1950
  19. 13 Social Citizenship and Women’s Right to Work in Postwar America
  20. 14 The Status of Widows in Bangladesh
  21. Part III Women Working Internationally
  22. 15 Nationalism and Feminism in the Black Atlantic
  23. 16 Women’s Rights or Human Rights? International Feminism between the Wars
  24. 17 From Self-Determination via Protection to Equality via Non-Discrimination: Defining Women’s Rights at the League of Nations and the United Nations
  25. 18 South Sudanese Refugee Women: Questioning the Past, Imagining the Future
  26. 19 Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Grassroots Women Redefine Citizenship in a Global Context
  27. Index