Globalizing Feminisms, 1789- 1945

by Karen M. Offen (Editor)

This definitive reader presents a coherent, comprehensive, and comparative collective history of women's activism throughout the world. The chapters are supported by a global timeline of events.

Genres: Feminism

472 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Karen Offen (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a historian and independent scholar affiliated as a Senior Scholar with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University in California.

She publishes on the history of Modern Europe, especially France and its global influence; Western thought and politics with reference to family, gender, and the relative status of women; historiography; women's history; the national, regional and global histories of feminism; and comparative history.