What characterised women's international co-operation in the interwar period? How did female activists from different countries and continents relate to one another? Marie Sandell here explores the changing experiences of women involved in the major international women's organisations - including the International Council of Women, International Alliance of Women, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the International Federation of University Women - as well as the changing compositions and aims of the organisations themselves. Moving beyond an Anglo-American focus, Sandell analyses what the term 'international sisterhood' meant in this broader context, which for the first time included women from the beyond the Western world. Focusing on shifting identities, this book investigates how notions of 'sisterhood' were played out, and contested, during the interwar period and will be invaluable reading for scholars of women's history and twentieth-century world history.

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

For each of these countries the manner in which feminism changes according to cultural, political, economic and religious factors is explored. The contributors investigate how national feminisms are influenced by transnational factors, such as the women's movements in other countries, colonialism and international agencies. Each chapter also considers what Asian feminists have contributed to global theoretical debates on the woman question, the key successes and failures of the movements and what needs to be addressed in the future."--Pub. desc.

Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world. They 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. 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.

Explores the social and political developments that have energized movements of global feminism Increasingly feminists around the world have successfully campaigned for recognition of women's full personhood and empowerment. Global Feminism explores the social and political developments that have energized this movement. Drawn from an international group of scholars and activists, the authors of these original essays assess both the opportunities that transnationalism has created and the tensions it has inadvertently fostered. By focusing on both the local and global struggles of today's feminist activists this important volume reveals much about women's changing rights, treatment and impact in the global world. Contributors: Melinda Adams, Aida Bagic, Yakin Ertürk, Myra Marx Ferree, Amy G. Mazur, Dorothy E. McBride, Hilkka Pietilä, Tetyana Pudrovska, Margaret Snyder, Sarah Swider, Aili Mari Tripp, Nira Yuval-Davis.

"This is a very exciting collection that will fill an important gap in what has emerged in comparative studies of women and Latin American democracies. Maier and Lebon provide provocative overview essays, and the chapters trace a range of cases from Argentina and Brazil to Nicaragua and Venezuela, showing how institutions. leaders and culture all shape the opportunities and challenges women face."---Jane Jaquette, editor of Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America --

History of International Relations, Diplomacy and Intelligence, 14 (History of International Relations Library, 14) Historians are beginning to hone their use of the concept of transnationalism as an analytic tool to understand the ideas, networks, and activities of individuals and organizations working across and above the nation-state. This volume brings together the work of historians who consider women as transnational activists from the late nineteenth century to the years following the Second World War. The authors deepen our understanding of the complex ways in which individuals and organizations sought to achieve goals such as women's rights, peace, racial equality and medical relief. By analyzing the complexities of these women's lives and activism, the authors challenge the traditional narrative of international relations history and broaden our understanding of women's history and activism. Table of Contents Preface by Kathryn Kish Sklar Acknowledgements Table of Contents Introduction, Kimberly Jensen and Erika Kuhlman Mary Clement Leavitt, Japan, and the Transnationalization of the World WCTU, 1886-1912, Elizabeth Dorn Lublin Country by Birth, Country by Marriage: American Women's Transnational War Efforts in Great Britain, 1895-1918, Dana Cooper Localizing the Global: The YWCA Movement in China, 1899 to 1939, Elizabeth A. Littell-Lamb Black Liberation is an International Cause: Charlotta Bass's Transnational Politics, 1914-1952, Anne Rapp Liberal and Conservative Women Transnational Activists and Postwar Reconciliation after the Great War, Erika Kuhlman Feminist Transnational Activism and International Health: The Medical Women's International Association and the American Women's Hospitals, 1919-1948, Kimberly Jensen How to "Make This Pan American Thing Go?" Interwar Debates on U.S. Women's Activism in the Western Hemisphere, Megan Threlkeld Creating a Transnational Identity: The IFUW Confronts Racial and Religious Membership Restrictions in the 1930s, Christy Jo Snider "I Knew the Kind of Work That Was Done For Children": Dr. Martha Eliot and the Origins of UNICEF, Jennifer Morris About the Author(s)/Editor(s) Kimberly Jensen, (Ph.D. History, University of Iowa 1992) is Professor of History and Gender Studies at Western Oregon University. She is the author of Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008). Erika Kuhlman (Ph.D. American Studies, Washington State University 1995) is an Associate Professor of History and Women Studies at Idaho State University. She is the author of Reconstructing Patriarchy after the Great War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).