Remembering Women’s Activism

<p><em>Remembering Women’s Activism</em> examines the intersections between gender politics and acts of remembrance by tracing the cultural memories of women who are known for their actions. </p><p>Memories are constantly being reinterpreted and are profoundly shaped by gender. This book explores the gendered dimensions of history and memory through nation-based and transnational case studies from the Asia-Pacific region and Anglophone world. Chapters consider how different forms of women’s activism have been remembered: the efforts of suffragists in Britain the USA and Australia to document their own histories and preserve their memory; Constance Markievicz and Qiu Jin two early twentieth-century political activists in Ireland and China respectively; the struggles of women workers; and the movement for redress of those who have suffered militarized sexual abuse. The book concludes by reflecting on the mobilization of memories of activism in the present.</p><p>Transnational in scope and with reference to both state-centred and organic acts of remembering including memorial practices physical sites of memory popular culture and social media<i> Remembering Women’s Activism </i>is an ideal volume for all students of gender and history the history of feminism and the relationship between memory and history.</p>