ABSTRACT
Women’s Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world to look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women’s organizations, as political leaders, and in global forums such as the United Nations.
The book is divided into three parts. Part one, brings together four essays about organized women’s activism across borders. The chapters in part two focus on the variety of women’s activism and explore women’s activism in different national and political contexts. And part three explores the changing relationships and inequalities among women.
This book addresses women’s internationalism and struggle for their rights in the international arena; it deals with racism and colonialism in Australia, India and Europe; women’s movements and political activism in South Africa, Eastern Bengal (Bangladesh), the United Kingdom, Japan and France. Essential reading for anyone interested in women’s history and the history of activism more generally
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|61 pages
Transnational women's activism
chapter 1|13 pages
Overcoming hierarchies through internationalism
chapter 2|16 pages
Transnational mentoring
chapter 3|15 pages
‘Spectacular feminism’
chapter 4|15 pages
Cold War internationalisms, nationalisms and the Yugoslav-Soviet split
part II|75 pages
Varieties of women's activism
chapter 5|13 pages
‘We are equal to men in ability to do anything!’
chapter 6|16 pages
The trials and tribulations of a black woman leader
chapter 7|15 pages
East Bengal women's education, literature and journalism
chapter 8|15 pages
Fighting the double moral standard in Edwardian Britain
part III|47 pages
Changing relationships between ‘unequal sisters’