Women's Rights and Human Rights

PATRICIA GRIMSHAW is Max Crawford Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She is author of Women's Suffrage in New Zealand, Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth Century Hawaii and co-author of Creating a Nation as well as several edited collections. She has served as President of the International Federation of Research in Women's History from 1995-2000. - KATIE HOLMES is Senior Lecturer in History and Women's Studies at LaTrobe University, Melbourne. She is the author of Spaces in Her Day: Australian Women's Diaries of the 1920s and 1930s. - MARILYN LAKE is Professor of History at LaTrobe University, Melbourne. Her publications include Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism and she is co-author, with Patricia Grimshaw, of Creating a Nation.

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; M.Lake, K.Holmes & P.Grimshaw PART I: LEGACIES OF IMPERIALISM British Women, Women's Rights and Empire, 1790-1850; C.Midgley Nationalism, Colonialism and Women: The Case of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Japan; N.Hayakawa Reading the Silences: Suffrage Activists and Race in Nineteenth-Century Settler Societies; P.Grimshaw Women, Individual Human Rights, Community Rights: Tensions within the Papua New Guinea State; A.Dickson-Waiko Na-Wa-Hine Kapu: Divine Hawaiian Women; L.Kame'eleihiwa Reconciling Our Mothers' Lives: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Women Coming Together; J.Huggins, K.Saunders & I.Tarrago Margaret Mead and the Ambiguities of Sexual Citizenship for Women; D.Janiewski PART II: NEGOTIATING NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP Rerooting American Women's Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848; N.Hewitt Women's Suffrage, Citizenship Law and National Identity: Gendering the Nation-State in France and Germany, 1871-1918; L.Auslander Gender and Citizenship in Russia, 1860-1920: Issues of Equality and Difference; L.Edmondson Emily's Dream: A Women's Memorial Building and a History without Walls: Citizenship and the Politics of Remembrance in 1930-40s New Zealand; C.Macdonald From Family Rights to Individual Rights in Women's National Citizenship in Norway, 1888-1905; I.Blom Social Citizenship and Women's Right to Work in Postwar America; E.Boris & S.Michel The Status of Widows in Bangladesh; S.Akhtar PART III: WOMEN WORKING INTERNATIONALLY Nationalism and Feminism in the Black Atlantic; D.G.White Women's Rights of Human Rights? International Feminism between the Wars; K.Offen From Self-Determination (via Protection) to Equality (via Non-Discrimination): Defining Women's Rights at the League of Nations and the United Nations; M.Lake South Sudanese Refugee Women: Questioning the Past, Imagining the Future; J.K.Edward Women's Rights as Human Rights: Grassroots Women Redefine Citizenship in a Global Context;T.Kaplan Select Bibliography Index

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