{"product_id":"distant-sisters-australasian-women-and-the-international-struggle-for-the-vote-1880-1914-9781526167118","title":"Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eDistant Sisters \u003c\/i\u003euncovers 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-siècle global connection.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eDistant Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is fresh and necessary, a razor-sharp collection of ‘messy stories’ that warn against simplistic readings of the past to the suit the imperatives or trends of the present.'\u003cbr\u003eDr Yves Rees, \u003ci\u003eSydney Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eDistant Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e [is a] meticulous account of Australasian women’s international activism in support of women’s suffrage between 1880 and 1914'.\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Marilyn Lake, \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eDistant Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is a seamlessly and beautifully written, as well as rigorously researched, account of the intersecting ambitions, aspirations, endeavours, successes and failures of political women connected by virtue of their place in the Australasian region. It is a masterful recount of the ‘messy stories’ both underpinning and arising out of Australasian suffrage success.’\u003cbr\u003eSharon Crozier-De Rosa, \u003ci\u003eWomen’s History Review \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Meticulously researched … this careful study allows us to see both the excitement of women who wished to be the first to achieve the franchise and the disappointments that followed. Through his thorough engagement with a range of sources Keating has illustrated the importance of cross-border connections'.\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Barbara Brookes, \u003ci\u003eHistory Australia \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'James Keating’s \u003ci\u003eDistant Sisters \u003c\/i\u003eis … an important book … It is meticulously researched, elegantly written and skilfully organised, building on international as well as local research and eschewing simple celebratory conclusions about Australasian women’s global engagement. Thus, while acknowledging the positive achievements, it emphasises contingency, contradictions and limitations, especially in imagining an Australian identity and forging trans-Tasman cooperation.'\u003cbr\u003eEmeritus Professor Judith Smart, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Historical Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'In this welcome new addition to suffrage historiography, Keating … delivers a portrait of the Australasian suffrage campaign that is far from traditional. It moves the reader away from a focus on the mere mechanics of the campaign, or indeed a spotlight on its key figures, to view instead a picture that is more detailed and complex. It helps the reader understand why the history of this movement and its activists has not taken a centre-stage in the global narratives of the women’s franchise, while also highlighting the roles of some of the almost unknown or forgotten figures weaving through its history. By using a methodology that privileged spatial concepts we understand why regional issues mattered so greatly and also why ‘Indigenous voices were absent from the Australian campaigns’.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen’s History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Leading the empire, leading the world?\u003cbr\u003e1 For God and home and every land: Suffrage internationalism in the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union\u003cbr\u003e2 ‘My heart...yearn[s] for a genuine voting Australian woman!’: Australasian suffragists and the international suffrage movement\u003cbr\u003e3 The business of correspondence: Politics, friendship, and intimacy in suffragists’ letters               \u003cbr\u003e4 Shaking hands across the seas: The Australasian women’s advocacy press\u003cbr\u003e5 Suffragists on tour: Exporting and narrating the female franchise\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041034142039,"sku":"9781526167118","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526167118.jpg?v=1750948686","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/distant-sisters-australasian-women-and-the-international-struggle-for-the-vote-1880-1914-9781526167118","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}