ABSTRACT
Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of women’s history, exploring how cross-border connections and global developments since the nineteenth century have shaped diverse women’s lives and the gendered social, cultural, political and economic histories of specific localities.
The book is divided into three thematically-organised parts, covering gendered histories of transnational networks, women’s agency in the intersecting histories of imperialisms and nationalisms, and the concept of localizing the global and globalizing the local. Discussing a broad spectrum of topics from the politics of dress in Philippine mission stations in the early twentieth century to the shifting food practices of British women during the Second World War, the chapters bring women to the centre of the writing of new transnational histories.
Illustrated with images and figures, this book throws new light on key global themes from the perspective of women’s and gender history. Written by an international team of editors and contributors, it is a valuable and timely resource for students and researchers of both women’s history and transnational and global history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|64 pages
Gendered histories of transnational networks and connections
part II|69 pages
Women's agency in the intersecting histories of imperialisms and nationalisms
chapter 4|21 pages
‘New women', American imperialism, and Filipina nationalism
chapter 5|19 pages
The woman question and the national question in the Russian Empire
chapter 6|27 pages
The Italian Empire ‘at home’
part III|56 pages
Localizing the global/globalizing the local