Connecting Women's Histories

Barbara Bush is Emeritus Professor of History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has published widely on imperialism, race, gender and empire, including Imperialism and Postcolonialism (2006).June Purvis is Emeritus Professor of Women’s and Gender History at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has published widely on women’s education in nineteenth-century Britain and on the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain, including Emmeline Pankhurst: a biography (2002).

• Introduction – Connecting Women’s Histories: the local and the global 1. Feminising Empire? British Women’s Activist Networks in Defending and Challenging Empire from 1918 to Decolonisation 2. ‘The Women’s Branch of the Commonwealth Relations Office’: the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women and the long life of empire migration 3. ‘Going on with our little movement in the hum drum-way which alone is possible in a land like this’: Olive Schreiner and suffrage networks in Britain and South Africa, 1905–1913 4. From Settlers to Strays: white Zimbabwean women, historical memory and belonging in the diaspora c.1980–2010 5. ‘Belles from Bristol and Bournville in New Surroundings’: female confectionery workers as transnational agents, 1918–1928 6. ‘Immorality’, Nationalism and the Colonial State in British Malaya: Indian ‘coolie’ women’s intimate lives as ideological battleground 7. International and Modern Ideals in Irish Female Medical Missionary Activity, 1937–1962 8. ‘The salvation of them’: emigration to North America from the nineteenth-century Irish women’s convict prison 9. The Women’s Party of Great Britain (1917–1919): a forgotten episode in British women’s political history 10. The National and International in Making a Feminist: the case of Alexandra Gripenberg 11. From Hiroshima to Lausanne: the World Congress of Mothers and the Hahaoya Taikai in the 1950s