De-centring Twentieth-Century Women's Movements

Contemporary European History

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 503-512

  Davidson, Denise Z ^a  

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EID: 85008530422     PISSN: 09607773     EISSN: 14692171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0960777301003095     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. These include Richard Evans, The Feminist Movement in Germany, 1894-1933 (London: Sage, 1976); Susan Kent, Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1840-1914 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987); and Claire Goldberg Moses, French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984). A very different sort of national’ history can be found in Joan Wallach Scott, Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996).
2. Among these collections, all of which are important precursors to the works discussed here, are: Gisela Bock and Pat Thane, Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States, 1880s-1950s (London and New York: Routledge, 1991); Caroline Caley and Melanie Nolan, Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives (New York: New York University Press, 1994); Amrita Basu, ed., The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements in Global Perspective (Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford: Westview Press, 1995); and Joan W. Scott, Cora Kaplan and Debra Keates, eds., Transitions, Environments, Translations: Feminisms in International Politics (New York and London: Routledge, 1997). See Richard Evans, Comrades and Sisters: Feminism, Socialism and Pacifism in Europe, 1870-1945 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987) for an early example of a single historian taking an international (European) approach to feminism.
3. One recent and influential example of this trend towards studying multi-directional, transnational influences at work in social movements is Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).
4. See Ian Christopher Fletcher, Laura E. Nym Mayhall and Philippa Levine, eds., Woman's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race (London: Routledge, 2000) for a study that takes seriously this task of incorporating and showing relationships between the various areas of the British Empire with regard to the question of suffrage. I appreciate Professor Fletcher's willingness to share this material with me before its publication.
5. L'ambition de cet ouvrage n'est pas de survoler en de trop bréves pages un siécle d'oppression, mais de montrer comment l'antiféminisme s'inscrit dans l'histoire de notre siécle.’ On American antifeminism, see Jane Jerome Camhi, Women Against Women: American Anti-Suffragism, 1800-1920 (Brooklyn: Carlson, 1994); for the British case, see Brian Harrison, Separate Spheres: the Opposition to Women's Suffrage in Britain (London: Croom Helm, 1978).
6. See Karen Offen, Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach', Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 14 (1988): 119-57.
7. For a valuable discussion of one of these women's lives, see Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
8. Antoinette Burton's work on British feminists in India has inspired much reflection on such relations. See her Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994).
9. Another recent work on one version of such new women’ is Christine Bard's Les Garcëonnes: Modes et fantasmes des Années folles (Paris: Flammarion, 1998).