2011/12/01 by Marie Sandell · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Gender Politics and Representation #Gender, Security, and Conflict #Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
paper · doi:10.1080/07075332.2011.620737
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This article explores the increase in regional women's organisations and conferences in the ‘non-West’, including the All-India Women's Conference, the Pan-Pacific Women's Association and the All-Asian Women's Conference, from the late 1920s, and to what extent they represented a challenge to the hegemony of the international framework established by Western members of organisations such as the International Council of Women, the International Alliance of Women, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom earlier in the century. In particular, it examines what this ‘regionalisation’ signified, whether these regional forums presented themselves as colleagues or rivals of existing international women's organisations, and to what extent these regional organisations offered an alternative space to their international counterparts, by introducing a new type of internationalism characterised by somewhat different values and the pursuit of other topics to those of international organisations.