Women Going Global: Australian and British Feminist Internationalists, 1919-39 ...

• Main Author: Staff, Michelle
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Australian National University 2023
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25911/s230-gj45; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/285272

This study of eight significant Australian and British feminist internationalists harnesses the complex details of individual lives to examine feminist internationalism as it developed over the course of the interwar period. While such stories have often fallen in the trough created by the "waves" metaphor, a growing body of scholarship is currently enriching our understanding of this formative moment in feminism's past. This thesis makes an original intervention into this historiography, turning away from the oft-studied North Atlantic to consider the British Empire and Commonwealth's metropole and periphery in one frame of reference and thus expand existing knowledge of Western feminism. Applying the methods of group biography, it sits at the intersection of social, political, and intellectual history. It draws together a wide range of primary source material from several countries - including individuals' and organisations' archival papers, published reports and pamphlets, feminist periodicals, women's ...