Distant sisters (EPUB) von James Keating

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.

Introduction: Leading the empire, leading the world?1 For God and home and every land: Suffrage internationalism in the Worlds Womans Christian Temperance Union2 My heart...yearn[s] for a genuine voting Australian woman!: Australasian suffragists and the international suffrage movement3 The business of correspondence: Politics, friendship, and intimacy in suffragists letters 4 Shaking hands across the seas: The Australasian womens advocacy press5 Suffragists on tour: Exporting and narrating the female franchiseConclusionBibliographyIndex

In 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 womens electoral rights. Charting the common trajectory of the colonial suffrage campaigns,Distant Sistersuncovers 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 Adelaidelong considered the peripheries of the feminist worldcannot be separated from its glamourous metropoles. Focusing on Antipodean women, simultaneously insiders and outsiders in the emerging international womens 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.

James Keating is a lecturer and tutor in History at the University of New South Wales