ABSTRACT
This edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage from an international perspective. Leading international scholars explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of social and political struggle, and examine the ideological and cultural implications of gendered constructions of 'race', nation and empire. The book includes comprehensive case-studies of Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Palestine.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |83 pages
Re-thinking suffrage discourse
chapter |17 pages
Modernity and mother-heartedness
Spirituality and religious meaning in Australian women's suffrage and citizenship movements, 1890s–1920s
chapter |16 pages
White maternity and black infancy
The rhetoric of race in the South African women's suffrage movement, 1895–1930
part |70 pages
Local feminisms in an imperial state
chapter |16 pages
An experiment in the social laboratory?
Suffrage, national identity, and mythologies of race in New Zealand in the 1890s
chapter |18 pages
“Women of the Nations, Unite!”
Transnational suffragism in the United Kingdom, 1912–1914
chapter |17 pages
“Pioneering representatives of the Hebrew people”
Campaigns of the Palestinian Jewish Women's Equal Rights Association, 1918–1948
chapter |17 pages
Nation, tradition and rights
The indigenous feminism of the Palestinian women's movement, 1929–1948
part |85 pages
Tracking the transnational
chapter |16 pages
“Making fresh Britains across the seas”
Imperial authority and anti-feminism in Rhodesia
chapter |17 pages
Australian women's metropolitan activism
From suffrage, to imperial vanguard, to Commonwealth feminism
chapter |16 pages
Suffragism and internationalism
The enfranchisement of British and Indian women under an imperial state
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