In this fascinating history of European federalism during the 1920s and 1930s, Rebecca Shriver uncovers a surprising grassroots phenomenon. Moving beyond the familiar story of elite male intellectuals, she reveals how women and feminist activists in the Pan-European Union, the New Europe Group, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom shaped new visions for a united Europe. These organizations imagined a continental federation that prioritized cooperation, reconciliation, and individualism-qualities they associated with women's leadership. By reframing the failures of the nation-state as products of 'man-made' systems, they offered alternatives grounded in gendered ideas of peace. Drawing on rich archival research, this study challenges conventional narratives of European integration and demonstrates the central role of women in its intellectual foundations. Both timely and provocative, it speaks to enduring debates on democracy, polarization, and international cooperation that continue to resonate today.
This article examines how the Belarusian protest movement of 2020 has generated a distinct feminist reconfiguration of political participation. Employing a qualitative, interpretive approach, the article draws on the experiences, practices and testimonies of the 2020 Belarusian protest movement to trace how care, mutua...
This thoroughly updated editionprovides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a more just global order. Mary Hawkesworth explores how social, economic, and political inequalities between men and women of different races, classes, ethnicities, and nationalities have been...
Founded in 1948, the World Council of Churches (WCC) was an important voice for human rights during the establishment of the postwar liberal international order. Bastiaan Bouwman demonstrates how its Christian human rights advocacy underwent a dramatic change over the following decades, from its initial focus on religi...
What can Robert Schuman still teach us in a fragmented, multicultural and geopolitically uncertain Europe?
This book revisits the philosophical and anthropological foundations of European integration to recover a concept often overlooked: community. For Schuman, European integration was a moral and political project or...
For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. GlobalRomanticism: Origins, Orientations, andEngagements, 1760–1820 charts a new intellectual course by explor...
This volume challenges the view that state socialism in Eastern, Southeast, and Central Europe was a monolithic structure guided by the ideal of proletarian dictatorship.
Creative Dissent argues that the region was teeming with alternative cultures: emergent actions and expressions that actively challenged the dominan...
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