Distant Sisters - Australasian Women International Struggle for Vote, 18801914

The book tells a regional and international history of the Australian suffrage campaigns between 1880-1914, uncovering the networks of suffragists built to win the vote and sell its merits abroad. Situated at the nexus of feminist and imperial history, it examines the limits of cross border connection in turn-of-the-century social reform movements.

List of contents

Introduction: Leading the empire, leading the world?
1 For God and home and every land: Suffrage internationalism in the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union
2 'My heart...yearn[s] for a genuine voting Australian woman!': Australasian suffragists and the international suffrage movement
3 The business of correspondence: Politics, friendship, and intimacy in suffragists' letters
4 Shaking hands across the seas: The Australasian women's advocacy press
5 Suffragists on tour: Exporting and narrating the female franchise
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

James Keating is a lecturer and tutor in History at the University of New South Wales

Summary

The book tells a regional and international history of the Australian suffrage campaigns between 1880-1914, uncovering the networks of suffragists built to win the vote and sell its merits abroad. Situated at the nexus of feminist and imperial history, it examines the limits of cross border connection in turn-of-the-century social reform movements. -- .

Product details

• Authors: James Keating, Keating James
• Assisted by: Lynn Abrams (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781526140951
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4095-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Gender in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Australia, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Civil rights & citizenship, Gender studies: women and girls, Australasia, c 1890 to c 1899, Elections and referenda / suffrage