Feminist Pacific - International Women''s Networks in Hawai''i, 18201940

The Feminist Pacific examines transnational networks in Hawai'i beginning in 1820, with the arrival of American missionary wives, and through the rise of women's internationalism in the interwar years.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Women’s Separate Sphere and White Settler Colonialism
2. The Politics of Woman Suffrage in the U.S. Territory of Hawai‘i
3. Territorial Motherhood’s Double-Edged Sword: Women’s Networks and Unequal Sisterhoods
4. Elusive Collaboration for Anglophone Hegemony: Maternalists, Liberals, and Internationalists
5. Forming the Delegation to the 1928 Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference: United States, Hawai‘i, Japan, and China
6. Pan-Pacific Women’s Voices and Global Feminism
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

Rumi Yasutake is a professor emerita at Konan University in Kobe, Japan. She is the author of Transnational Women’s Activism: The United States, Japan, and Japanese American Immigrant Communities in California, 1859–1920 (2004).

Summary

The Feminist Pacific examines transnational networks in Hawai‘i beginning in 1820, with the arrival of American missionary wives, and through the rise of women’s internationalism in the interwar years.

Product details

• Authors: Rumi Yasutake, Yasutake Rumi
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2024
• EAN: 9780231208529
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20852-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Global America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Hawaii, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, HISTORY / Women, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Feminism & feminist theory, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Black & Asian Studies, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states, Hawaii / Hawaiʻi (State of), history; social science