Introduction
Oliver Janz and Daniel Schönpflug
Chapter 1. Understanding international feminisms as ‘transnational’ – an anachronism? May Wright Sewall and the creation of the International Council of Women, 1889 to 1904
Karen Offen
Chapter 2. A forgotten instance of women’s international organizing. The transnational feminist networks of the Women’s Progressive Society (1890) and the International Women’s Union (1893–1898)
Julie Carlier
Chapter 3. The national councils of women in France, Italy and Portugal. Comparisons and entanglements 1888-1939
Anne Cova
Chapter 4. A struggle over gender, class and the vote: unequal international interactions and the formation of the ‘female International’ of socialist women (1905-1907)
Susan Zimmermann
Chapter 5. How did women use the vote? Women and transnational politics in the twentieth century
Pat Thane
Chapter 6. A transnational career? The republican and utopian politics of Frances Wright (1795–1852)
Jane Rendall
Chapter 7. What is a transnational life? Some thoughts about Marguerite Thibert’s career and life (1886–1982)
Françoise Thébaud
Chapter 8. Between nationalism and cosmopolitism: female opera singers in Britain and Germany in the first half of the nineteenth century
Gunilla Budde
Chapter 9. Gender, class, race and sexuality: A transnational approach to legislation on venereal diseases, 1880s–1940s
Ida Blom
Chapter 10. Transgressing the colour line. Policing colonial ‘miscegenation’
Birthe Kundrus
Chapter 11. Sex drives, bride prices and divorces: Legal policy concerning gender relations in German Cameroon 1884–1916
Ulrike Schaper
Index