Manchester University Press
Introduction
Abstract
This introduction describes the major arguments and methodologies employed in the book, including the application of new imperial history models, networked conceptions of empire, and transnational history to the study of the Australasian and international women’s movements. It traces the trajectories of national suffrage historiography in Australia and New Zealand and details the existence of deep connections between suffragists across Britain’s Australasian colonies as well as these activists’ efforts to build meaningful connections with like-minded women across the world. It concludes by outlining the book’s primary sources and introducing its primary case studies: New South Wales, New Zealand, and South Australia. By paying careful attention to women from these emblematic colonies, it at once restores the suffragists to the overlapping worlds of Australasian and international feminist activism that they did so much to build and identifies the limits of transnational thought and action at the fin-de-siècle.
Abstract
This introduction describes the major arguments and methodologies employed in the book, including the application of new imperial history models, networked conceptions of empire, and transnational history to the study of the Australasian and international women’s movements. It traces the trajectories of national suffrage historiography in Australia and New Zealand and details the existence of deep connections between suffragists across Britain’s Australasian colonies as well as these activists’ efforts to build meaningful connections with like-minded women across the world. It concludes by outlining the book’s primary sources and introducing its primary case studies: New South Wales, New Zealand, and South Australia. By paying careful attention to women from these emblematic colonies, it at once restores the suffragists to the overlapping worlds of Australasian and international feminist activism that they did so much to build and identifies the limits of transnational thought and action at the fin-de-siècle.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures and tables viii
- Acknowledgements x
- List of abbreviations xii
- Introduction 1
- 1 For God and home and every land 28
- 2 ‘My heart … yearn[s] for a genuine voting Australian woman!’ 64
- 3 The business of correspondence 98
- 4 Shaking hands across the seas 133
- 5 Suffragists on tour 170
- Conclusion 203
- References 213
- Index 245
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures and tables viii
- Acknowledgements x
- List of abbreviations xii
- Introduction 1
- 1 For God and home and every land 28
- 2 ‘My heart … yearn[s] for a genuine voting Australian woman!’ 64
- 3 The business of correspondence 98
- 4 Shaking hands across the seas 133
- 5 Suffragists on tour 170
- Conclusion 203
- References 213
- Index 245
