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Distant sisters
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- In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global struggle for the expansion of women's electoral rights. Charting the common trajectory of the colonial suffrage campaigns, Distant Sisters uncovers the personal and material networks that transformed feminist organising. Considering intimate and institutional connections, well-connected elites and ordinary women, this book argues developments in Auckland, Sydney, and Adelaide-long considered the peripheries of the feminist world-cannot be separated from its glamourous metropoles. Focusing on Antipodean women, simultaneously insiders and outsiders in the emerging international women's movement, and documenting the failures of their expansive vision alongside its successes, this book reveals a more contingent history of international organising and challenges celebratory accounts of fin-de-si�cle global connection. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality.
- About The Author
- James Keating is a historian of suffrage, feminism, and internationalism in Australia and New Zealand
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781526167118
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press, (14 February 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 272
- Weight
- 318 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 138 x 14.41 mm
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