Rosa Manus (1881-1942)

Myriam Everard, Ph.D. (1994), University of Leiden, independent scholar, has published on the history of women and the public sphere in the Netherlands, lately focusing on first wave feminism. Her most recent publications concern the life and death of Rosa Manus.Francisca de Haan, Ph.D. (1992), Erasmus University Rotterdam, is Professor of Gender Studies and History at the Central European University. She has published widely on the history of the international women’s movement, including the volume Women’s Activism (Routledge, 2012).

• Acknowledgements List of AbbreviationsList of Illustrations List of ContributorsIntroduction: Recovering the Legacy of Rosa Manus, Francisca de Haan Part 1Essays Chapter 1: Rosa Manus: The Genealogy of a Jewish Dutch Feminist, Myriam Everard Chapter 2: Rosa Manus at the 1915 International Congress of Women in The Hague and Her Involvement in the Early WILPF, Annika Wilmers Chapter 3: Rosa Manus, Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb and the Bonds of High-Financial Womanhood, Mineke BoschChapter 4: Global Visions: The Women’s Disarmament Committee (1931–1939) and the International Politics of Disarmament in the 1930s, Karen GarnerChapter 5: Trying to Stem the Tide: Rosa Manus’s Peace Activism in the 1930s, Ellen Carol DuBois Chapter 6: Rosa Manus in Cairo, 1935, and Copenhagen, 1939: Encounters with Egyptians, Margot BadranChapter 7: Memory is Power: Rosa Manus, Rosika Schwimmer, and the Struggle about Establishing an International Women’s Archive, Dagmar Wernitznig Chapter 8: Fateful Politics: The Itinerary of Rosa Manus, 1933–1942, Myriam EverardPart 2 PicturesPart 3DocumentsAppendix 1: Rosa Manus – AncestryAppendix 2: Rosa Manus – Chronology Appendix 3: Rosa Manus – BibliographyIndex

"The volume touches on all of the important themes of that history—the centrality of peace activism, the impact of the world wars and the rise of fascism, the tensions over imperialism and nationalist resistance in colonized countries, the importance of resources to the persistence of the movement, the vital glue of intimate relationships—and brings to the fore additional ones, including the role of Jewish women, the centrality of Dutch feminists in transnational feminism, and the struggle over preserving the history of the movement." - Leila J. Rupp, University of California, Santa Barbara, in: Women's History Review (2018)"Eindelijk een boek dat licht werpt op een van de belangrijkste Nederlandse feministen [...]. Veel aspecten van dit rijke, tot nu toe vrijwel onbekende leven komen aan bod in het voorbeeldig uitgegeven Rosa Manus (1881-1942). [...] Uiteindelijk gaat het boek over iemand die niet in hokjes past, en die in verzet komt als zij tegen wil en dank het etiket Joods opgeplakt krijgt. Zowel de tekst als foto's tonen ook daadwerkelijk aan dat Rosa Manus vele gezichten had. Voor mij laat dit boek zien dat hoe waardevol én ingewikkeld de strijd tegen de etikettering is, vroeger en nu." - Marjan Schwegman, in: de Nederlandse Boekengids, November 2017, pp. 28-29