Series: Gender in History

The book tells a regional and international history of the Australian suffrage campaigns between 1880-1914, uncovering the networks of suffragists built to win the vote and sell its merits abroad. Situated at the nexus of feminist and imperial history, it examines the limits of cross-border connection in turn-of-the-century social reform movements. In the 1890s, Australian and New Zealand women became...

This is the first book-length account of The Women's Liberation Movement in Scotland, which, using documentary evidence and oral testimony, charts the origins and development of this important social movement of the post-1945 period. In doing so, it reveals the inventiveness and fearlessness of feminist activism, while also pointing towards the importance of considering the movement from the local and...

Based on a wide range of original sources, including folktales, anthropological studies, court statements, poetry and speeches, Destined for a Life of Service sheds new light on the struggle of people of African descent for full and equal citizenship in the post-emancipation British Caribbean. It examines the messages that African-Jamaican women were given about their place and roles from within...