Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives [Paperback]

Caroline Daley (Editor), Melanie Nolan (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 081471871X | ISBN-13: 978-0814718711 | Publication Date: December 1, 1994 | Edition: 1st

The 1980s and 1990s have seen an unprecedented emphasis on global feminism, on the connectedness of women regardless of race, class, or geography. And yet, the status and position of women throughout the world remains enormously disparate. Even so fundamental an issue as a woman's right to vote has been--and in many countries continues to be--hotly contested. How then have suffrage movements evolved? What are the similarities and differences in the manner in which women, in a range of different economic, religious, and political contexts, have sought the vote?
Bringing together such eminent scholars as Nancy Cott, Ellen Dubois, and Carole Pateman, Suffrage and Beyond offers a comprehensive look at the political history of suffrage on a global scale.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

The editors of this volume, scholars from Australia and New Zealand, provide a fascinating international perspective on woman suffrage. The issues discussed range from "suffrage with a French twist" to gender politics in Japan.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Caroline Daley is Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Auckland. Melanie Nolan teaches Comparative Labor and Social History at Victoria University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: New York University Press; 1st edition (December 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081471871X
• ISBN-13: 978-0814718711
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,081,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Melanie Nolan is Professor of History, Director of the National Centre of Biography and the General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University. She was born in Reefton on the West Coast of New Zealand, attended the University of Canterbury, graduating with a BA in 1982 and an MA (Hons) in 1985 before being awarded an ANU Scholarship, graduating with a PhD in 1990. She lectured at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, for 16 years from the end of 1992 to 2008. Her research focuses on changes in work and workers, connecting labour and class, gender and women, and more recently) ethnicity in 20thC Australian and New Zealand history. Her book Kin. The Collective Biography of a Working-class New Zealand Family (2005) won the 2006 Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ) Ian Wards Prize and was short-listed for the 2007 Ernest Scott Prize.