Feminisms: A Global History

405 Pages·2020·8.307 MB·English

by  Lucy Delap

Feminisms

LUCY DELAP
F eminisms
A Global History
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Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ix
INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER 1
27
Dreams
CHAPTER 2
59
Ideas
CHAPTER 3
101
Spaces
CHAPTER 4
141
Objects
CHAPTER 5
177
Looks
CHAPTER 6
223
Feelings
CHAPTER 7
261
Actions
CHAPTER 8
295
Songs
CONCLUSION: GLOBAL FEMINISMS 333
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 347
NOTES 353
FURTHER READING 377
INDEX 385
List of Illustrations
1.1 Alexandra Kollontai, People’s Commissar for Social Welfare,
37
with homeless children, c. 1917 (Alamy).
3.1 Tokyo members of Seitōsha, 1911. 105
3.2 Maida Springer Kemp, 1936 (Kheel Center,
114
Cornell University).
3.3 Funmilayo Ransome- Kuti (Alamy). 120
4.1 Anne Knight (© Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in
Britain; courtesy of the Library of the Religious Society of 143
Friends in Britain, Friends House, Euston Rd, London).
4.2 Equality Brand Tea trademark, 1910 (Courtesy of the
152
Secretary of State Records, California State Archives).
4.3 Front cover of Sister, the newspaper of the Los Angeles
157
Women’s Center, July 1973 (Feminist Library, London).
4.4 Dun Emer press room, c. 1903 (Trinity College
172
Dublin Library; TCD MS 11535).
4.5 ‘Women’s Liberation badges (Ville de Paris/Bibliothèque
176
Marguerite Durand (BMD) and Joelle Patient).
5.1 Offi cial portrait of Trinidad Fernandez Legarda,
183
Queen of the Manila Carnival, 1924.
5.2 ‘The Bloomer Costume’, lithograph published by
N. Currier, New York, 1851 (Courtesy of the 186
Library of Congress, LC- DIG- pga- 06193).
5.3 Māori dress reformers, c. 1906 (Image from Christchurch
188
City Libraries. CCL-PhotoCD11-IMG0096).
5.4 Lady Constance Lytton in disguise, c. 1914 (© March
199
of the Women Collective/Mary Evans Picture Library).
5.5 Woman wearing saya and manto, Lima, c. 1860-80. 208
5.6 Meena Keshwar Kamal, 1982. 218
6.1 Three participants in the Lavender Menace action at
the second Congress to Unite Women, New York, 1970 232
(Diana Davis, New York Public Library).
6.2 The 1975 International Women’s Year Tribune,
Mexico City (Bettye Lane, Schlesinger Library, 253
Radcliff e Institute, Harvard University).
7.1 Daisy Solomon and Elspeth McClellan outside
266
10 Downing Street, February 1909 (LSE Library).
7.2 Julieta Lanteri voting in Buenos Aires, 1911 (Courtesy
of the Archivo General de la Nación Argentina 273
AGN_DDF/ Caja 2124, Inv: 115542).
7.3 Rosalie Bognor and Merle Thornton chain themselves
275
to a bar, 1965 (Bruce Postle, Newsphotos).
8.1 Anna Julia Cooper (Photo Courtesy of the Oberlin
300
College Archives).
8.2 Composer Ethel Smyth, 1912 (LSE Library). 303
8.3 A protestor in Parliament Square, 1982 (Edward Barber). 321
List of Abbreviations
BUGA-UP: Billboard Utilising Graffi tists Against Unhealthy
Promotions
CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women
CLIT: Collective Lesbian International Terrors
DCWLM: District of Columbia Women’s Liberation
Movement
ERA: Equal Rights Amendment
FEN: Feminist Economic Network
FFCU: Feminist Federal Credit Union
ICW: International Council of Women
IWSA: International Woman Suff rage Alliance
NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People
NGO: Non-Governmental Organization
NOW: National Organization for Women
NUSEC: National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
NUWSS: National Union of Women’s Suff rage Societies
NWRO: National Welfare Rights Organization
oob: off our backs
RAWA: Revolutionary Association for the Women of
Afghanistan