Transnational Suffragettes

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This podcast is part of a series on Global Feminisms. Articles in this series explore how feminists have acted beyond the nation. How have global events, ideas and tactics impacted feminism, and vice versa? How have feminists worked across difference – for example, of race, nation, politics – more and less successfully? Read an introduction to the series here.

The struggle for women’s right to vote is often thought to have been waged on a national level. But how was this movement transnational? In what ways was international travel important to women’s agitation for the vote? How did women move between nations and inspire and challenge each other? If they stayed local, what helped them to feel part of an international community? Historians James Keating and Sumita Mukherjee discuss those questions in conversation with Rosa Campbell.

History Workshop Podcast · Transnational Suffragettes

Rosa Campbell

Rosa Campbell is an historian and writer. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge and is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She works on the global history of feminism. She is passionate about bringing ideas to life beyond the university and writes often for a public audience recently at Overland, Meanjin, The White Review and Public Books. She also leads public history projects with cultural institutions. Much to her surprise, she is quite sporty these days. More at www.rosa-campbell.com.

James Keating

James Keating is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australia and New Zealand. Tracing the stories and material legacies of Australasian activists, his research interrogates local, national, and international feminist movements to better understand the history and memory of transnational organizing. His scholarship appears in History Compass, Signs, Women’s History Review, and elsewhere. His book, Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880–1914, was published by Manchester University Press in 2020.

Sumita Mukherjee

Sumita Mukherjee is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth century transnationalism, mobility and migration in South Asia, Britain and the British Empire, with a particular focus on gender. She is based at the University of Bristol and is the author of Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned (Routledge, 2010) and Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks (Oxford University Press, 2018).

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