Women in Transnational History

Taylor & Francis

Women in Transnational HistoryConnecting the Local and the Global\nAuthor(s): Clare Midgley, Alison Twells, Julie Carlier\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138905764, 978-1138905764\nSynopsis\nWomen in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of womens history, exploring how cross-border connections and global developments since the nineteenth century have shaped diverse womens lives and the gendered social, cultural, political and economic histories of specific localities. \n\nThe book is divided into three thematically-organised parts, covering gendered histories of transnational networks, womens agency in the intersecting histories of imperialisms and nationalisms, and the concept of localizing the global and globalizing the local. Discussing a broad spectrum of topics from the politics of dress in Philippine mission stations in the early twentieth century to the shifting food pra.