Women S International Activism During The Inter War Period 1919 1939

Author : Ingrid Sharp,Matthew Stibbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351585309

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Women's International Activism during the Inter-War Period, 1919–1939 by Ingrid Sharp,Matthew Stibbe Pdf

In historical writing the interwar years are often associated with the rise of extreme forms of nationalism. Yet paradoxically this period also saw significant advances in the development of internationalism and international-mindedness. This collection examines previously under-researched aspects of the role played by women’s movements and individual female activists in this process. Women campaigners contributed to, and helped to (re)define, what constituted international work in myriad ways. For some, particularly those coming from a radical pacifist background, the central theme after 1919 was the eradication of war and the preservation of world peace. Yet others were more interested in the sharing of medical knowledge across borders, in the promotion of new causes such as physical fitness or the cultural assimilation of immigrants, or in finding fresh and innovative ways of battling for old causes, such as female suffrage and women’s access to education. It was even possible for nationalist women to use the language and practices of internationalism to further their own conservative, illiberal or anti-communist agendas, or to argue for revision of the peace treaties of 1919-20. The volume addresses these different kinds of activism, and the many links between them, by way of particular examples. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.

Author : Ingrid Sharp,Matthew Stibbe,Senior Lecturer in European History Matthew Stibbe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 1138296155

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Women's International Activism During the Inter-War Period, 1919-1939 by Ingrid Sharp,Matthew Stibbe,Senior Lecturer in European History Matthew Stibbe Pdf

This book examines women's campaigns for peace and social justice during the period between the World Wars. It discusses women's medical activism, the work done to rebuild ties between national women's movements, and the visit of the Nazi women's leader. It was originally published as a special issue of Women's History Review.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367891263

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Women's International Activism During the Inter-War Period, 1919-1939 by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : Ingrid Sharp,Matthew Stibbe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472578792

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Women Activists between War and Peace by Ingrid Sharp,Matthew Stibbe Pdf

Women Activists between War and Peace employs a comparative approach in exploring women's political and social activism across the European continent in the years that followed the First World War. It brings together leading scholars in the field to discuss the contribution of women's movements in, and individual female activists from, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Russia and the United States. The book contains an introduction that helpfully outlines key concepts and broader, European-wide issues and concerns, such as peace, democracy and the role of the national and international in constructing the new, post-war political order. It then proceeds to examine the nature of women's activism through the prism of five pivotal topics: * Suffrage and nationalism * Pacifism and internationalism * Revolution and socialism * Journalism and print media * War and the body A timeline and illustrations are also included in the book, along with a useful guide to further reading. This is a vitally important text for all students of women's history, twentieth-century Europe and the legacy of the First World War.

Author : Mona L. Siegel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231551182

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Peace on Our Terms by Mona L. Siegel Pdf

In the watershed year of 1919, world leaders met in Paris, promising to build a new international order rooted in democracy and social justice. Female activists demanded that statesmen live up to their word. Excluded from the negotiating table, women met separately, crafted their own agendas, and captured global headlines with a message that was both straightforward and revolutionary: enduring peace depended as much on recognition of the fundamental humanity and equality of all people—regardless of sex, race, class, or creed—as on respect for the sovereignty of independent states. Peace on Our Terms follows dozens of remarkable women from Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia as they crossed oceans and continents; commanded meeting halls in Paris, Zurich, and Washington; and marched in the streets of Cairo and Beijing. Mona L. Siegel’s sweeping global account of international organizing highlights how Egyptian and Chinese nationalists, Western and Japanese labor feminists, white Western suffragists, and African American civil rights advocates worked in tandem to advance women’s rights. Despite significant resistance, these pathbreaking women left their mark on emerging democratic constitutions and new institutions of global governance. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Peace on Our Terms is the first book to demonstrate the centrality of women’s activism to the Paris Peace Conference and the critical diplomatic events of 1919. Siegel tells the timely story of how female activists transformed women’s rights into a global rallying cry, laying a foundation for generations to come.

Author : Andrew Denning,Heidi J.S. Tworek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000919486

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The Interwar World by Andrew Denning,Heidi J.S. Tworek Pdf

The Interwar World collects an international group of over 50 contributors to discuss, analyze, and interpret this crucial period in twentieth-century history. A comprehensive understanding of the interwar era has been limited by Euro-American approaches and strict adherence to the temporal limits of the world wars. The volume’s contributors challenge the era’s accepted temporal and geographic framings by privileging global processes and interactions. Each contribution takes a global, thematic approach, integrating world regions into a shared narrative. Three central questions frame the chapters. First, when was the interwar? Viewed globally, the years 1918 and 1939 are arbitrary limits, and the volume explicitly engages with the artificiality of the temporal framework while closely examining the specific dynamics of the 1920s and 1930s. Second, where was the interwar? Contributors use global history methodologies and training in varied world regions to decenter Euro-American frameworks, engaging directly with the usefulness of the interwar as both an era and an analytical category. Third, how global was the interwar? Authors trace accelerating connections in areas such as public health and mass culture counterbalanced by processes of economic protectionism, exclusive nationalism, and limits to migration. By approaching the era thematically, the volume disaggregates and interrogates the meaning of the ‘global’ in this era. As a comprehensive guide, this volume offers overviews of key themes of the interwar period for undergraduates, while offering up-to-date historiographical insights for postgraduates and scholars interested in this pivotal period in global history.

Author : Eileen Boris,Dorothea Hoehtker,Susan Zimmermann
Publisher : Studies in Global Social Histo
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9004360395

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Women's ILO by Eileen Boris,Dorothea Hoehtker,Susan Zimmermann Pdf

What is the place of women in global labour policies? 'Women?s ILO: Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards, and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present' gathers new research on a century of ILO engagement with women?s work. It asks: what was the role of women?s networks in shaping ILO policies and what were the gendered meanings of international labour law in a world of uneven and unequal development? Intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary, Women?s ILO explores gendered dynamics on issues like equal remuneration, home-based labour, and social welfare and practices in places like Argentina, Italy, Ghana, and internationally, expanding the boundaries of feminism, charting the disparate advancement of gender equity, and highlighting the significant role of women experts and activists in these processes.

Author : Jan Stöckmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316511619

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The Architects of International Relations by Jan Stöckmann Pdf

Based on extensive archival research, this book provides a new and stimulating history of International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline. Contrary to traditional accounts, it argues that IR was not invented by Anglo-American men after the First World War. Nor was it divided into neat theoretical camps. To appreciate the twists and turns of early IR scholarship, the book follows a diverse group of men and women from across Europe and beyond who pioneered the field since 1914. Like architects, they built a set of institutions (university departments, journals, libraries, etc.) but they also designed plans for a new world order (draft treaties, petitions, political commentary, etc.). To achieve these goals, they interacted closely with the League of Nations and its bodies for intellectual cooperation, until the Second World War put an end to their endeavour. Their story raises broader questions about the status of IR well beyond the inter-war period.

Author : Catherine Clay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474412544

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Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939 by Catherine Clay Pdf

This collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of women's print media and dispels the myth of the interwar decades as a retreat to 'home and duty' for women. The volume demonstrates that women produced magazines and periodicals ranging in forms and appeal from highbrow to popular, private circulation to mass-market, and radical to reactionary. It shows that the 1920s and 1930s gave rise to a plurality of new challenges and opportunities for women as consumers, workers and citizens, as well as wives and mothers. Featuring interdisciplinary research by recognised specialists in the fields of literary and periodical studies as well as women's and cultural history, this volume recovers overlooked or marginalised media and archival sources, as well as reassessing well-known commercial titles. Designed as a 'go-to' resource both for readers new to the field and for specialists seeking the latest developments in this area of research, it opens up new directions and methodologies for modern periodical studies and cultural history.

Author : Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781800372856

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Gender and Human Rights by Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko Pdf

This unique book analyses the impact of international human rights on the concept of gender, demonstrating that gender emerged in the medical study of sexuality and has a complex and broad meaning beyond the sex and gender binaries often assumed by human rights law. The book illustrates which dynamics within the field of human rights hinder the expansion of the concept of gender beyond binaries and which strategies and mechanisms allow and facilitate such an expansion.

Author : Julie V. Gottlieb,Gaynor Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000575774

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Gendering Peace in Europe c. 1880–2000 by Julie V. Gottlieb,Gaynor Johnson Pdf

This book examines the connection between notions of gender, diplomacy, society and peacemaking in the period c. 1880 to the mid- to late-twentieth century. The chapters in this volume place gender history at the interface with international history and international relations. They explore a wide variety of themes and issues within the British and European context, especially notions of gender identity, the politics and culture of women’s suffrage in the early part of the twentieth century and the role gender played in the formulation and execution of British foreign policy. The book also breaks new ground by attempting to gender diplomacy. Further, it revisits the popular view that women were connected with the peace movements that grew up after the First World War because the notion of peace was associated with stereotypical female traits, such as the rejection of violence and the nurturing rather than destruction of humankind. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Diplomacy and Statecraft.

Author : E. Sue Wamsley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496213501

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A Hemisphere of Women by E. Sue Wamsley Pdf

A Hemisphere of Women focuses on the first Pan American women’s organization dealing specifically with women’s civil and political rights in a transnational arena in the early twentieth century.

Author : Stefan Manz,Panikos Panayi,Matthew Stibbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351848350

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Internment during the First World War by Stefan Manz,Panikos Panayi,Matthew Stibbe Pdf

Although civilian internment has become associated with the Second World War in popular memory, it has a longer history. The turning point in this history occurred during the First World War when, in the interests of ‘security’ in a situation of total war, the internment of ‘enemy aliens’ became part of state policy for the belligerent states, resulting in the incarceration, displacement and, in more extreme cases, the death by neglect or deliberate killing of hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. This pioneering book on internment during the First World War brings together international experts to investigate the importance of the conflict for the history of civilian incarceration.

Author : Anya Jabour
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252051524

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Sophonisba Breckinridge by Anya Jabour Pdf

Sophonisba Breckinridge's remarkable career stretched from the Civil War to the Cold War. She took part in virtually every reform campaign of the Progressive and New Deal eras and became a nationally and internationally renowned figure. Her work informed women’s activism for decades and continues to shape progressive politics today. Anya Jabour's biography rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure. After earning advanced degrees in politics, economics, and law, Breckinridge established the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration, which became a feminist think tank that promoted public welfare policy and propelled women into leadership positions. In 1935, Breckinridge’s unremitting efforts to provide government aid to the dispossessed culminated in her appointment as an advisor on programs for the new Social Security Act. A longtime activist in international movements for peace and justice, Breckinridge also influenced the formation of the United Nations and advanced the idea that "women’s rights are human rights." Her lifelong commitment to social justice created a lasting legacy for generations of progressive activists.

Author : Holly Ashford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000801811

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Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982 by Holly Ashford Pdf

This book investigates the history of women’s reproductive health in Ghana, arguing that between the 1920s and 1980s, it was largely driven by discourses of development and population control rather than a concern for women’s health or rights. Between the 1920s and 1980s, the choices that Ghanaian women made regarding their reproductive health were defined by development policy and practice. Spanning the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods, this book demonstrates that whilst the substance of development discourse shifted over time, principles of development continued to be used to impact and legitimise reproductive health policy and practices well after independence. The book explores Ghana’s pluralist health system, the introduction of maternal and child welfare, the dominance of the Red Cross in Ghana’s maternal and child health landscape, nationalist pronatalism and global population activism. In order to understand how global iterations of development and health policy impacted ordinary lives in Ghana, the author uses evidence from multiple ‘levels,’ including private papers, national archives and records of international and transnational organisations. Providing balanced archival perspectives, the book includes extensive oral history interviews carried out with both rural Ghanaian women and traditional birth attendants, as well as with midwives, doctors and family planning fieldworkers. This book will have an important impact on a number of historical fields including Ghanaian history, global health history, global histories of population and family planning and histories of development. It will be of interest to researchers and students in the history of public health, development, Africa, Ghana and gender.