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Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction -- Shaming unwomanly women -- Reversing the shame of British colonisation -- Embarrassing the Imperial centre -- Shaming British-Australia -- War and the dishonourable British feminist -- Shaming manhood to embody courage -- The shame of the violent woman -- Conclusion.

"This book places the concept of shame within a historical context. It examines how this emotion was used by popular writers (especially female writers) in the widespread backlash against feminism at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, in Britain, Ireland and Australia. Shame was considered to be an overwhelmingly appropriate weapon in the campaign against the aspirations and actions of the 'unwomanly' woman. Trouble arose, however, when it appeared that these unwomanly women were either resistant to or incapable of experiencing this highly gendered emotion.This study casts new light on just how intricately shame was linked with anxieties about the future of civilisation, and therefore with feminism, imperialism, nationalism, in the popular mentality of those inhabiting regions of the British Empire. The book examines the far-reaching implications feminism had for nation and empire, and uncovers the extent to which shame and shaming was relied on as a tool for social control among female writers of anti-feminist persuasion."--Provided by publisher.

In the so-called West, feminist activists and scholars have long been traumatised by the erasure of their histories via dominant patriarchal narratives, which has served as an impediment to the intergenerational transmission of feminist knowledge. Recently, while acknowledging the very real and ongoing impact of this historical omission, some feminists have issued a call to turn away from a narrative of women's history as 'serial forgetting' and towards an acknowledgement of the affirmative capacity of feminist remembering. At the same time, memory theorist Ann Rigney has advocated for a 'positive turn' in memory studies, away from what she perceives to be the field's gravitation towards trauma and instead towards an analysis of life's positive legacies. In this article, I combine both approaches to investigate one feminist memory-keeper's archive, analysing what it reveals about 'the mechanisms by which positive attachments are transmitted across space and time'. Throughout her life, little-known 'between-the-waves' Australian feminist Ruby Rich (1888–1988) performed multiple intersecting activist activities. While she created feminist memories through her work for various political organisations, she also collected, stored and transmitted feminist memories through her campaign for a dedicated space for women's collections in the National Library of Australia. Propelled by fear of loss and inspired by hope for remembering, Rich constructed a brand of archival activism that was both educational and emotional. In this paper, I examine the strategies Rich employed to try to realise her dream of effecting intellectual and affective bonds between future feminists and their predecessors.

Shame has been heavily relied on as a political tool in the modern world and yet it is still a much under‐historicised emotion. Using the examples of early twentieth‐century Britain and Ireland, I examine how women opposed to the campaign for female suffrage used shame instrumentally in their writing. Exploring the versatility of this political device, I find that shame was used with the oppositional intentions of binding and excluding. Whereas British conservatives used it to protect an already well‐established imagined community of good imperial women, Irish radicals drew on it to invite women to take part in the construction of a new nationalist sisterhood. This paper further problematizes claims that as an emotion that plays on a sense of the communal, shame has had no place in a highly individualistic modern world.

Introduction -- Suffragists & suffragettes -- Revolutionary nationalists -- Workers -- The grandmothers -- Marching on

Im Zeitraum 2017 bis 2021 wurde dem hundertjährigen Bestehen des Frauenwahlrechts in mehr oder weniger breit gefächerter Form gedacht. Die wechselvolle Geschichte dieses Erinnerns sowohl seitens Aktivist*innen der Frauenbewegungen und Historiker*innen als auch seitens staatlicher Institutionen oder politischer Parteien wird hier am Beispiel ausgewählter europäischer Länder veranschaulicht. Die Beiträge zeigen, wie sehr fehlende Quellen, aber auch Stereotypen und Vorurteile Herausforderungen für ebendieses Erinnern bedeuteten. Zudem reflektieren sie das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen den unterschiedlichen Interessen der am Gedenken Mitwirkenden. Das Jubiläum hat nicht nur den Grundstein für eine Integration der Einführung des Frauenwahlrechts in die nationale politische Geschichte gelegt, sondern auch dazu beigetragen, das gesamte Thema aus neuen Perspektiven zu betrachten. Aus dem Inhalt: Die Erinnerung an das Frauenwahlrecht in Großbritannien und Irland / 100 Jahre Frauenwahlrechtsjubiläum in Deutschland / An Inside Reflection on the Dutch Centenary of Universal (Women's) Suffrage / Memory Work, Memory Politics and the Centennial of Women's Suffrage in Sweden / Frauenwahlrechtsjubiläen in zwei Nachfolgestaaten der Habsburgermonarchie / Ellen Carol DuBois interviewed by Mineke Bosch – Woman Suffrage in Times of Distress / Leben im Versteck. Annäherung an die Geschichte von Kindern ausländischer Arbeiter*innen in der Schweiz der Hochkonjunktur / Die antifeministischen Geschlechterpolitiken der FPÖ Commemorations are currently remembering the centennial of women's suffrage in several European countries and the United States. While, on the surface, early historiography of the history of women's suffrage has opened the way for the discipline of women's and gender history since the 1970s, several concerns, such as the collection and preservation of suffrage heritage, stereotypes and prejudices, and political contextualization, have challenged ways and possibilities both to write this history and to remember women's equal inclusion in political participation. This issue seeks to explore the politics of suffrage memory, addressing both the historiography of women's suffrage and its impact on the commemoration of women's enfranchisement, especially also in relation to national celebrations of universal suffrage.