Alice Henry The Power Of Pen And Voice

A biography of Alice Henry (1857-1943), a pioneer in both the Australian and American labour movements.

Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even more Australian women than men made the pilgrimage "home," seeking opportunities beyond those available to them in the Australian colonies or dominion. In tracing the experiences of these women, this volume reveals hitherto unexamined connections between whiteness, colonial status, gender, and modernity.

Catherine Helen Spence, an unparalleled advocate of women's rights in Australia and the world, is now recognized as an important predecessor to the Feminist movement. Her autobiography, composed while on her deathbed and enhanced with scholarly annotation from two Spence scholars, reveals a woman both in and ahead of her time.

In Two Paths to Equality, Amy E. Butler provides a fascinating portrait of two of the major adversaries in the 1920s' battle over equal rights legislation for women in the United States—Alice Paul and Ethel M. Smith. While they shared the goal of full political and legal equality for women, they differed on how best to achieve it. Paul, the author of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and leader of the National Woman's Party, fought to establish that women were the same as men under the law. Smith, legislative secretary of the National Women's Trade Union League and a recognized leader of the opposition to the ERA, believed the ERA did not adequately consider the impact of class and economic differences in women's lives and consequently would sacrifice the interests of one group of women to another. Smith and Paul's conflict is a telling story of the inextricable relationship between personal politics, collective action, and the intersection of law and culture on the social construction of gender. Comparing their perspectives on equality creates a new understanding of the people and issues at stake in the ERA debate.

Prologue: From Equal Rights to Democratic Equality -- Part I Citizens of the World -- Sitting at the Common Table -- A Higher 'Standard of Life' for the World -- Part II Dreams Deferred -- A 'Parliament of Working Women' -- Social Justice Under Siege -- Pan-Internationalisms -- Part III New Deals -- Social Democracy, American-Style -- Women's New Deal for the World -- Part IV Universal Declarations -- Wartime Journeys -- Intertwined Freedoms -- Cold War Advances -- Part V Redreamings -- The Pivotal Sixties -- Sisters and Resisters -- Epilogue: Of the Many, By the Many, For the Many -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

These original essays exemplify how the transnational history of the United States is being written today. The authors offer fresh work that focuses on the circuits of border-crossing activity that Americans have inhabited, while still taking the nation-state seriously.

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