Description:
- The transnational approach sheds new light on international women´s history by bringing up new topics beyond the level of official state interaction
- By questioning universal claims, the transnational approach unfolds a critical potential
- Has a huge comparative range that covers not only Western, Northern and Eastern Europe and the US but also Africa
Brief description:
Daniel Schönpflug is Vice Director of the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin. His publications include Luise von Preußen. Königin der Herzen (2010) and Die Heiraten der Hohenzollern. Verwandtschaft, Ritual und Politik in Europa 1640-1918 (2013). In recognition of his commitment to Franco-German scholarly exchange, Daniel Schönpflug received the Gay-Lussay-Humboldt-Award in 2010.
Review Quotes:
"This rich and varied collection of essays, tied together by the editors' clear explanatory rationale, provides much evidence to support Janz's and Schonpflug's claim that a transnational perspective opens new lines of inquiry and insights for historians of international women's and gender history." - Women & Social Movements in the US
"This volume is an important contribution to the transnational implications of gender history and shows the variety of potential areas of activities, indicating how much work still needs to be done... This collection makes clear that previous definitions of transnational women's history were too narrow and that far more perspectives can offer fruitful possibilities, going beyond the analysis of transnational institutions and their actors." - H-Soz-Kult
"This collection of essays addresses important topics in the history of European feminisms. It goes beyond national histories to examine transnational contacts, comparisons, and transfers... The essays are by an interesting collection of authors, some already very well known in the field, and others promising junior scholars." - Ann Taylor Allen, University of Louisville