Engendering Transnational Transgressions

From the Intimate to the Global
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-50572-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

Reihe: Women's and Gender History

Engendering Transnational Transgressions reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the political in public and intimate spaces.

The book begins by highlighting the transgressive nature of feminist historiography. It then divides into two parts—Part I, Intimate Transgressions: Marriage and Sexuality, examines marriage and divorce as viewed through a transnational lens, and Part II, Global Transgressions: Networking for Justice and Peace, considers political and social violence as well as struggles for relief, redemption, and change by transnational networks of women. Chapters are archivally grounded and take a critical approach that underscores the local in the global and the significance of intersectional factors within the intimate. They bring into conversation literatures too often separated: history of feminisms and anti-war, anti-imperial/anti-fascist, and related movements, on the one hand, and studies of gender crossings, marriage reconstitution, and affect and subjectivities, on the other. In so doing, the book encourages the reader to rethink standard interpretations of rights, equality, and recognition.

This is the ideal volume for students and scholars of Women’s and Gender History and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as International, Transnational, and Global History, History of Social Movements, and related specialized topics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boris, Eileen

Trudgen Dawson, Sandra

Molony, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Engendering transnational transgressions: from the intimate to the global 2. Matronage: a useful concept for understanding the involvement of women in the public sphere in ancient societies Part 1: Intimate transgressions: marriage and sexuality 3. Challenging gender, historicizing gossip: reflections on the life of Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir 4. The transgressive agency of the crossdressing soldier: the case of Anna Henryka Pustowójtówna (1838-1881), feminized masculinity, and insurgent Poland 5. Transnational interventions into the intimate: circling around Pandita Ramabai and The Little Wives of India 6. Divorce and legal separation in Australia c. 1900: a tale of two transgressive great great grandmothers 7. Challenging Indigenous marriage from within: memories of the Tiwi’s Martina and the figure of Malinche 8. Transnational struggles for racial justice: Australian Indigenous women’s marriages to American servicemen during the Second World War 9. Women’s movements in 1970s Japan: transgression and rejection Part 2: Global transgressions: networking for justice and peace 10. Challenging the national political order with transnational languages: British women at the fourth international suffrage congress in Amsterdam, 1908 11. Petitioning for independence: Syrian and Lebanese women’s transnational anti-colonialism, 1919-1939 12. Naming rape: historicizing women’s human rights activism and agency in the Italo-Ethiopian war 13. Anti-fascist feminismo: suffrage, sovereignty and Popular-Front Pan-American feminism in Panama 14. Transgressive transnationalism: the anti-colonial strategies in the Women’s International Democratic Federation 15. Borderless for peace: how transnational connections shaped Women Strike for Peace 16. The interpreter class: women in conflict engage the international human rights community 17. Transnational and transgenerational connections: gendering US-Japan educational exchange

Über Autor(innen)

Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, History, Black Studies, and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Sandra Trudgen Dawson is Executive Administrator of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, USA.

Barbara Molony is Professor of Japanese History at Santa Clara University, USA, and specializes in women’s rights, transnational feminisms, and East Asian gender constructions.