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From Modern Feminist Utopias to Feminist Post-utopia: Biopolitics and Women’s Emancipation
The fundamental principle of modernity on which the utopian stories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are based, biopolitics as an...
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Emancipation, Integration, and Dissociation
This chapter deals with the consolidation of the organized Italian women’s movement from the 1880s onward. In this period, the tensions within the...
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“We Witches.” Knowledge Wars, Experience and Spirituality in the Women’s Movement During the 1970s
During the 1970s, feminist activists reappropriated the figure of the witch in various ways as a symbol of alterity, political radicalism, feminist...
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Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952): Communism as the Only Way Toward Women’s Liberation
Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (1872–1952) was an influential activist, politician, and diplomat whose efforts profoundly shaped the early gender...
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Jewish Women in the Early Italian Women’s Movement, 1861–1945 Biographies, Discourses, and Transnational Networks
This book is the first epoch-spanning study on Jewish participation in the Italian women’s movement, focussing in a transnational perspective on the...
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Clara Zetkin (1857–1933): A Rebel Building the Socialist and Communist International Women’s Movements
This chapter provides an overview of Clara Zetkin’s life, ideas, and main contributions. She held her first speech about women’s liberation at the...
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From Resistance to Repression: Modernization and Transformations of Women’s Movement
This chapter analyses the new state’s modernization project as a multifaceted project that stimulated the institutionalization of the modern gender...
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Liberating Ourselves: Slave Resistance and Emancipation
This chapter explores nineteenth-century abolition. Legal abolition of slavery occurred at different times across the region. Here, we focus on the...
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Global Voices from the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition: Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive
This introductory chapter addresses the historical, conceptual, and methodological contributions of our book and synthesizes the specific arguments...
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French Authors in the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition: A Stage of Feminism, Still Traditional Works
France was strongly represented at the women’s pavilion of the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. The French “Comité des dames” selected more than 1000...
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Women’s Social Status and Life in the Mansions of Kastoria During the Ottoman Rule
Nineteenth-century Greek society framed women as good mothers and spouses, kind hostesses as well as guardians of Greek culture and traditions. In...
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“Fait à mes heures de loisir”: Women’s Private Libraries as Spaces of Learning and Knowledge Production
The Duchesses Elisabeth Sophie Marie (1683–1767) and Philippine Charlotte of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel (1716–1801) both owned substantial collections...
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Women’s Path to Economic Autonomy in Italy
The theme of women’s economic emancipation during the nineteenth—to early—twentieth centuries in Italy has been explored by feminist historians....
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The Role(s) of the Czechoslovak New Woman as a Consumer: The Case of the Women’s Magazine Eva (1928–1938)
Based on the women’s magazine Eva (1928–1938), the chapter examines the various roles of the New Woman as a consumer in the First Czechoslovak...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World
This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of...
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Introduction: Decolonizing African Women’s Studies
The Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies is a distinctive reference book bringing together knowledge, scholarship, analysis, and debates on...
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African Women’s Internet Discourses
The chapter highlights the broad and diverse frameworks that underline North African women’s new global interconnectivity. Women’s use of social...
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Writing Nigerian Women’s Political History
The woman as an entity has garnered a lot of sociopolitical, cultural, economic, and literary discourses. This study aims at evaluating research and...
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Women’s Issues, Feminism, and the PCI
This chapter traces the party’s cinematographic engagement with women from the foundation of Unitelefilm onwards, and draws some conclusions...
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The Arab Spring and Women’s Movements in North Africa
North African countries involved in or affected by the 2011 Arab Spring protests were Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. On the eve of the...