Gender History in a Transnational Perspective

Introduction Oliver Janz and Daniel Schonpflug Chapter 1. Understanding international feminisms as 'transnational' - an anachronism? May Wright Sewall and the creation of the International Council of Women, 1889 to 1904 Karen Offen Chapter 2. A forgotten instance of women's international organizing. The transnational feminist networks of the Women's Progressive Society (1890) and the International Women's Union (1893 - 1898) Julie Carlier Chapter 3. The national councils of women in France, Italy and Portugal. Comparisons and entanglements 1888-1939 Anne Cova Chapter 4. A struggle over gender, class and the vote: unequal international interactions and the formation of the 'female International' of socialist women (1905-1907) Susan Zimmermann Chapter 5. How did women use the vote? Women and transnational politics in the twentieth century Pat Thane Chapter 6. A transnational career? The republican and utopian politics of Frances Wright (1795 - 1852) Jane Rendall Chapter 7. What is a transnational life? Some thoughts about Marguerite Thibert's career and life (1886 - 1982) Francoise Thebaud Chapter 8. Between nationalism and cosmopolitism: female opera singers in Britain and Germany in the first half of the nineteenth century Gunilla Budde Chapter 9. Gender, class, race and sexuality: A transnational approach to legislation on venereal diseases, 1880s - 1940s Ida Blom Chapter 10. Transgressing the colour line. Policing colonial 'miscegenation' Birthe Kundrus Chapter 11. Sex drives, bride prices and divorces: Legal policy concerning gender relations in German Cameroon 1884 - 1916 Ulrike Schaper Index