Distant Sisters - (Gender in History) by James Keating (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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 women's electoral rights. Charting the common trajectory of the colonial suffrage campaigns, <i>Distant Sisters </i>uncovers 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 Adelaide--long considered the peripheries of the feminist world--cannot be separated from its glamourous metropoles. Focusing on Antipodean women, simultaneously insiders and outsiders in the emerging international women's 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><i>Distant sisters</i> offers a new history of the connections women in Australia and New Zealand made with one another, and the rest of the world, first in their pioneer pursuit of the vote and then in their struggle to sell its merits overseas. Although the Australasian suffrage campaigns occurred side-by-side and shared a commitment to international outreach, this book is the first to take these parallels seriously. Recovering a forgotten regional suffrage history, it uses their stories to explore the rise of suffrage internationalism in the late nineteenth century and, importantly, to chart its political, geographic, and racial limits. Covering the period 1880-1914, the book charts the development of an international consciousness among elite and ordinary suffragists alike. Following the conduits that allowed them to think and act across borders, it shows how Australasian suffragists positioned themselves within the emerging international women's movement and shaped organisations like the International Woman Suffrage Alliance and World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union. <i>Distant Sisters </i>simultaneously unveils the intimate dimensions of internationalism, showing how sentiments ignited by the exchange of letters, newspapers and photographs, and preserved in scrapbooks, briefly led the Australasian suffragists to grace British and American concert halls. While often fraught and frustrating, their attempts to forge meaningful intercolonial and international connections complicate both insular national histories of suffrage and the orthodox Euro-American narrative of fin-de-siècle feminist internationalism. Written in an approachable, case-study driven style, this book will appeal to undergraduates and academic specialists in the fields of feminist history, British imperial history and Australian and New Zealand studies alike.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'<i>Distant Sisters</i> is fresh and necessary, a razor-sharp collection of 'messy stories' that warn against simplistic readings of the past to the suit the imperatives or trends of the present.' Dr Yves Rees, <i>Sydney Review of Books </i> '<i>Distant Sisters</i> [is a] meticulous account of Australasian women's international activism in support of women's suffrage between 1880 and 1914'. Professor Marilyn Lake, <i>Australian Book Review </i> '<i>Distant Sisters</i> is a seamlessly and beautifully written, as well as rigorously researched, account of the intersecting ambitions, aspirations, endeavours, successes and failures of political women connected by virtue of their place in the Australasian region. It is a masterful recount of the 'messy stories' both underpinning and arising out of Australasian suffrage success.' Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, <i>Women's History Review </i> 'Meticulously researched ... this careful study allows us to see both the excitement of women who wished to be the first to achieve the franchise and the disappointments that followed. Through his thorough engagement with a range of sources Keating has illustrated the importance of cross-border connections'. Professor Barbara Brookes, <i>History Australia </i> 'James Keating's <i>Distant Sisters </i>is ... an important book ... It is meticulously researched, elegantly written and skilfully organised, building on international as well as local research and eschewing simple celebratory conclusions about Australasian women's global engagement. Thus, while acknowledging the positive achievements, it emphasises contingency, contradictions and limitations, especially in imagining an Australian identity and forging trans-Tasman cooperation.' Emeritus Professor Judith Smart (RMIT)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>James Keating is a lecturer and tutor in History at the University of New South Wales
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