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Part I: Transnational Women's Activism. Overcoming Hierarchies Through Internationalism: May Wright Sewall's Engagement With The International Council Of Women (1888-1904) / Karen Offen -- Transnational Mentoring: The Impact Of Sarojini Naidu's 1924 Visit To South Africa On Cissie Gool And Women's Leadership / Patricia Van Der Spuy And Lindsay Clowes -- 'spectacular Feminism': The International History Of Women, World Citizenship And Human Rights / Glenda Sluga -- Cold War Internationalism, Nationalism And The Yugoslav-soviet Split: The Union Of Italian Women And The Antifascist Women's Front Of Yugoslavia / Chiara Bonfiglioli -- Part Ii: Varieties Of Women's Activism. 'we Are Equal To Men In Ability To Do Anything!': African Jamaican Women And Citizenship In The Interwar Years / Henrice Altink -- The Trials And Tribulations Of A Black Woman Leader: Lilian Ngoyi And The South African Liberation Struggle / Barbara Caine -- East Bengal Women's Education, Literature And Journalism: From The Late Nineteenth Century Through The 1960s / Shirin Akhtar -- Fighting The Double Moral Standard In Edwardian Britain: Suffragette Militancy, Sexuality And The Nation In The Writings Of The Early Twentieth-century British Feminist Christabel Pankhurst / June Purvis -- Housewives-lib And Co-op In Japan (1970s-1990s) / Kiyoko Yamaguchi -- Part Iii: Changing Relationships Between 'unequal Sisters.' 'plenty European Ladies Told Me You Should Give Me Fair Place Same As Everybody': Gender, Race And Aboriginal Domestic Service / Victoria Haskins -- 'a Breach Of Confidence By Their Greatly Beloved Principal': A Furore At Women's Christian College, Chennai, India, 1940 / Margaret Allen -- Confronting 'race': French Feminism's Struggle To Become Global / Jennifer S. Duncan. Edited By Francisca De Haan... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.