220129 The Global Rise of Transnational Women’s Movements, 1890-1940 (S) (SoSe 2020)

This course examines the rise of transnational women’s movements around the globe from the foundation of the International Women’s Council in 1888 to the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance in 1904 and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919. Special attention will be paid to the movement’s globalization during the interwar-period, including both the Pan-American, the Pan-Asian, and the Pan-Pacific connections of movements advocating women’s civil, economic, and social rights. Its goal is to address how we may write a global history of this movement and how to use intersectionality as a tool to write it in a non-euro-centric manner.
The course will conclude with an oral exam that may be taken either in English or German, English grammar will not be corrected. Since we also prepare the oral exam during the seminar, attendance is of vital importance.

Bibliography

Marino, Katherine M.: Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement, Chapel Hill, NC 2019.
Robinson, Nova E.: “Sisters of Men”. Syrian and Lebanese Women’s Transnational Campaigns for Arab Independence and Women’s Rights, 1910-1949, Doctoral Dissertation, New Brunswick 2015.
Rupp, Leila: Worlds of Women. The Making of an International Women’s Movement. Princeton, NJ, 1997.
Sandell, Marie: The Rise of Women’s Transnational Activism. Identity and Sisterhood Between the World Wars, London 2015.
Umoren, Imaobong D.: Race Women Internationalists. Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles, Oakland, CA 2018.