Women's Rights and Human Rights International

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.

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.

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

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