This article considers why turn-of-the-twentieth-century
U.S. women's
suffragists failed to build a coalition with anti-imperialists
comparable to the antislavery-women's rights alliance of the
antebellum period. Although some prominent suffragists--including Susan
B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton--accepted the fundamental principle
of empire and only critiqued the implementation of U.S. policies, others
regarded anti-imperialism as a necessary outgrowth of their suffrage
principles. Since imperial endeavors gave rise to an anti-imperialist
movement, that, during the Philippine-American War, gained more political
salience than women's suffrage, anti-imperialist suffragists also regarded
their opposition to empire as a politically astute strategy. Yet the
suffragists who strove to build a reform coalition were frustrated
by both male anti-imperialist leaders and many of their suffrage
associates. And despite their interest in coalition building,
anti-imperialist suffragists failed to reach out to Filipina women,
who faced protracted struggles for political rights.
Canada borderlands as well, insp ired by the richness of southern borderlands studies and by the transnationalizing U.S. history movement. Their increasing interest in northern borderlands has, in turn, encouraged more comp arative analysis. Although comp arisons can certainly p rovide valuable insights into border making and border crossing, contrasting unconnected sites contributes to the idea that borderlands were limited in extent and that they closely adhered to national dividing lines. Furthermore, comp arisons that overlook the connections between northern and southern borderlands obscure the relational nature of border brokering. As this case study of beef p roduction on...
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