Women's Rights and Human Rights International Historical Perspectives

by Grimshaw, Patricia; Holmes, Katie; Lake, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9780333801956
• ISBN10: 0333801954
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-02
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Original essays explore the breadth and creativity of women's struggles for human rights, citizenship, and social justice across the world. The editors bring together 20 contributions by scholars to cover the historical, political, and social contexts of women's rights and activism.

Author Biography

Patricia Grimshaw is Max Crawford Professor of History, University of Melbourne. Katie Holmes is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies and Marilyn Lake is Professor of History, both at LaTrobe University, Australia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Notes on the Contributors	ix
Introduction	xiv
Marilyn Lake
Katie Holmes
Patricia Grimshaw
Part I Legacies of Imperialism
British Women, Women's Rights and Empire, 1790-1850	3	(13)
Clare Midgley
Nationalism, Colonialism and Women: the Case of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Japan	16	(15)
Noriyo Hayakawa
Reading the Silences: Suffrage Activists and Race in Nineteenth-Century Settler Societies	31	(18)
Patricia Grimshaw
Women, Individual Human Rights, Community Rights: Tensions within the Papua New Guinea State	49	(22)
Anne Dickson-Waiko
Na Wa Hine Kapu: Divine Hawaiian Women	71	(17)
Lalikala Kame'eleihiwa
Reconciling Our Mothers' Lives: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Women Coming Together	88	(17)
Jackie Huggins
Kay Saunders
Isabel Tarrago
Margaret Mead and the Ambiguities of Sexual Citizenship for Women	105	(18)
Dolores Janiewski
Part II Negotiating National Citizenship
Re-Rooting American Women's Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848	123	(15)
Nancy A. Hewitt
Women's Suffrage, Citizenship Law and National Identity: Gendering the Nation-State in France and Germany, 1871--1918	138	(15)
Leora Auslander
Women's Rights, Gender and Citizenship in Tsarist Russia, 1860-1920: the Question of Difference	153	(15)
Linda Edmondson
Emily's Dream: A Women's Memorial Building and a History Without Walls: Citizenship and the Politics of Public Remembrance in 1930s--40s New Zealand	168	(16)
Charlotte Macdonald
From Communal Family Rights to Individual Rights in Women's National Citizenship in Norway, 1888-1950	184	(15)
Ida Blom
Social Citizenship and Women's Right to Work in Postwar America	199	(21)
Eileen Boris
Sonya Michel
The Status of Widows in Bangladesh	220	(11)
Shirin Akhtar
Part III Women Working Internationally
Nationalism and Feminism in the Black Atlantic	231	(12)
Deborah Gray White
Women's Rights or Human Rights? International Feminism between the Wars	243	(11)
Karen Offen
From Self-Determination via Protection to Equality via Non-Discrimination: Defining Women's Rights at the League of Nations and the United Nations	254	(18)
Marilyn Lake
South Sudanese Refugee Women: Questioning the Past, Imagining the Future	272	(18)
Jane Kani Edward
Women's Rights as Human Rights: Grassroots Women Redefine Citizenship in a Global Context	290	(19)
Temma Kaplan
Index	309