Transnationalism and the writing of Australian women's history

Abstract

If we consider that transnational history involves tracing the movements of people, resources or ideas across borders, rather than as more narrowly national creations, then the writing of Australian women’s history was indeed a transnational field from its emergence in the 1970s. The writers shared the political inspiration that arose from the international women’s movement and the transformative academic conversations that feminists canvassed. The key writers deployed transnational frameworks to intervene radically in the focus and substance of within Australian history; transnational in inspiration, their work was nationally effective in furthering debates around gender, class and race. Wh..