Marie Sandell teaches Modern History on the University of London International Programme. She holds a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London.
This book makes an important contribution to the literature on transnational womens organising. Marie Sandell has made use of a wide variety of archives, including in Japan and Sweden as well as in Britain and the United States, and has greatly enriched the story of how transnational womens organisations worked to become truly global.
Leila Rupp, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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PLATES
Scandinavian delegates at the 1937 WILPF Luhacovice Congress (KvinnSam, Gteborgs Universitetsbibliotek)
Participants at the 1924 IFUW Conference in Kristiania (Hvar 8 Dag, 10 August 1924, Caroline Spurgeon Papers, PP 7/6/5/4, College Archives, Royal Holloway)
Madame Puech, the French Government delegate, and Miss Grace Yang, representative of China, to the 1924 IFUW Conference in Kristiania (Dagbladet, 30 July 1924, CS Papers, PP 7/6/5/4, RHUL Archives)
Journey home following WILPF's mission to China Edith Pye and Camille Drevet at Welcome Party in Japan hosted at Dr Inazo Nitobe's House in March 1928 (from Professor Nagako Sugimori?s private collection)
Session at the 1935 IAW congress in Istanbul (TWL.2009.02.30, LSE Library Collections)
Japanese delegates to the first Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in 1928 (www.ppseawa.org/about-ppseawa/history)
Opening meeting at the 1930 ICW Conference in Vienna (www.ncwaustria.org/history)
Hamid Ali, Indian delegate to the 1937 WILPF Luhacovice Congress (KvinnSam, Gteborgs Universitetsbibliotek)
1936 IAW Board Meeting in Amsterdam (The International Woman Suffrage News, Centenary Edition 1904 ? 2004 IAW-AIF)
Procession of delegates through the streets of Rome at the 1923 IAW Congress (The International Woman Suffrage News, Centenary Edition 1904 ? 2004 IAW-AIF)
WILPF and the World Disarmament Campaign in 1932 with British activist Margaret Bondfield in the centre (WILPF collection, the Women?s Library, LSE)
Margery Corbett Ashby, President of the IAW 192346, and Rosa Manus, prominent member of both the IAW and WILPF (The International Woman Suffrage News, Centenary Edition 1904 2004 IAW-AIF)
Huda Shaarawi, pioneering Egyptian feminist leader who founded both the Egyptian Feminist and the Arab Feminist Unions. She was also active in the IAW (Courtesy of Sania Sharawi)
Bertha Lutz, leading Brazilian feminist and member of the IAW (public domain)
Paulina Luisi, leading Uruguayan feminist and member of the IAW (public domain)
Sarojin Naidu, the first president of the AAWC, active in the AIWC and well-known Indian nationalist (public domain)