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Sixteen papers from a conference, Suffrage and beyond, Victoria University of Wellington, 1993.Contents: I. New Zealand women's suffrage -- 1. International Feminist perspectives on Suffrage: An Introduction / Melanie Nolan and Caroline Daley -- 2. Women's Suffrage in New Zealand Revisited: Writing from the Margins / Patricia Grimshaw -- 3. Presenting the Enfranchisement of New Zealand Women Abroad / Raewyn Dalziel -- II. Australia and the Pacific -- 4. Why Didn't They Want to be Members of Parliament? Suffragists in South Australia / Susan Magarey -- 5. Citizenship, Race, and Gender: Changing Debates Over the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Women / Ann Curthoys -- 6. Women and Political Leadership in the Pacific Islands / Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea -- III. Protracted struggles -- 7. Citizenship, Culture and Civilisation: The Languages of British Suffragists, 1866-1874 / Jane Rendall -- 8. Women, Citizenship, and Suffrage With a French Twist, 1789-1993 / Karen Offen -- 9. Women's Suffrage and Gender Politics in Japan / Yukiko Matsukawa and Kaoru Tachi -- 10. Suffrage in South America: Arguing a Difficult Cause / Asuncion Lavrin -- IV. Comparing suffrages -- 11. From Anti-Slavery to Suffrage Militancy: The Bright Circle, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the British Women's Movement / Sandra Stanley Holton -- 12. Early-Twentieth-Century Feminism in Political Context: A Comparative Look at Germany and the United States / Nancy F. Cott -- 13. Woman Suffrage Around the World: Three Phases of Suffragist Internationalism / Ellen Carol DuBois -- V. After suffrage -- 14. Between Old Worlds and New: Feminist Citizenship, Nation and Race, the Destabilisation of Identity / Marilyn Lake -- 15. Keeping the Candle Burning: Some British Feminists Between Two Wars / Johanna Alberti -- 16. The Impact of Women's Enfranchisement in Britain / Martin Pugh -- VI. Beyond suffrage -- 17. Three Questions About Womanhood Suffrage / Carole Pateman -- Appendix: Chronological List of Women's Suffrage Dates.
Summary: Seventeen papers by leading English-writing feminist historians selected from the 1993 'Suffrage and Beyond' conference at Victoria University. Arrangement is both chronological and geographical but selection aims to be issue-specific. Includes brief biographies of contributors, women's suffrage dates in different countries, selected bibliography, and comprehensive index. (Books in Print)