Engendering the Invisible Empire: Imperialism, Feminism, and US Women's History

Janiewski, Dolores

doi:10.1080/08164640120097525

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“…Others used the specter of U.S. annexation of the Philippines to argue that native‐born white women had to be granted the vote in order to help control the “uncivilized” Filipinos. There was no consensus among suffragists on the question of what the United States should do with the Philippines, but they saw the vote as a way for them to register their own views, not as a way to help “liberate” Filipina women (Hoganson, ; Sneider, ; see also Janiewski, ; Prieto, ). Despite their desire to extend the vote to more women around the world, U.S. suffragists not infrequently betrayed their own racialized assumptions about which women were “fit” to exercise that particular right.…”

Section: Us Women and The Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Twenty years of Worlds of Women: Leila Rupp's impact on the history of U.S. women's internationalism

Threlkeld

2017

History Compass

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Since its publication in 1997, Leila Rupp's Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement has been hailed as a ground‐breaking work of scholarship on women's internationalism. This essay considers its impact for U.S. historians in particular, examining how it has led to new studies of U.S. women internationalists and of U.S. women's engagement with women around the world. It has also furthered efforts to globalize the history of the United States, to reperiodize the field of U.S. women's history, and to diversify the field of U.S. foreign relations.

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Section: Us Women and The Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Twenty years of Worlds of Women: Leila Rupp's impact on the history of U.S. women's internationalism

Threlkeld

2017

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“…The anti-imperialist movement provides a compelling case that allows me to develop such a theory. Research on women during the "age of empire" (Hobsbawm 1987) has largely focused on white women's complicity with and contributions to empire building (Janiewski 2001;Tyrrell 1992;Ware 1992;Wexler 2000;Wildenthal 2001). The existence of important studies on women's work for empire begs the question of why there is such a dearth of analysis on women's anti-imperialism.…”

Section: Gender and Social Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women's Anti-Imperialism, “The White Man's Burden,” and the Philippine-American War

Murphy

2008

Gender & Society

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During the Philippine-American War (1899-1902), the Anti-Imperialist League was the organizational vanguard of an anti-imperialist movement. Research on this period of U.S. imperialism has focused on empire building, ignoring the gendered activity of anti-imperialists in the metropole. The author outlines the constitutive relationship between gendered structures and experience that informed anti-imperialists' “contentious politics,” using archival sources of the Anti-Imperialist League and anti-imperialist debates in newspapers. The author shows how anti-imperialist leaders informally included women's monetary donations, labor, networks, and reputations while formally excluding their full membership. Finally, the author shows how masculinist ambivalence, or the pattern of the gendered inclusions/exclusions of anti-imperialists, explains the incremental transformations and reproductions of gendered structures in anti-imperialists' contentious politics. The author suggests masculinist ambivalence has theoretical utility for explaining gendered inclusions and exclusions in movements that are not explicitly about gender conflict or change.

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“…As Janiewski (2001) argues, US-based international feminisms, while seemingly oriented toward solidarity, have often engaged in the projects of imperialist and hegemonic power. Without a recognition and refusal of the terms of empire, the FMF's campaign bolsters US world hegemony and contributes to the multiple and interlocking systems of oppression and privilege shaping the lives of Afghan women.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Western women and feminism become the embodiment of Afghanis' hope for democracy. The assumption of superiority and benevolence is possible because the FMF evades its own implication in the politics of the region and condones the terms of imperialism -the right to control, the right to invade and the right to occupy under the guise of 'liberating' women and creating a 'gender equality' resonant with so-called Western standards (Ahmed 1992;Janiewski 2001). The campaign is mostly silent with respect to a history of US global geopolitical involvement in and contributions to the rise of the Taliban and fundamentalism in Afghanistan.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

The Feminist Majority Foundation's Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid

Russo

2006

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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This essay offers a critical analysis of the Feminist Majority Foundation's Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan in terms of its synchronicity with US imperialism and militarism. While the FMF's Campaign draws public attention to the discrimination and violence facing Afghan women under the Taliban, its discourse is embedded in an ahistorical and Orientalist framework that assumes the benevolence and superiority of the US in establishing gender equality. Thus, the FMF reproduces an imperial feminism tied to US state interests in empire building -a feminism that evades accountability for the consequences of US militarism while it establishes its own power and authority in determining the future of Afghanistan. The imperial feminism of the FMF is an example of how actions taken to challenge hegemony can in fact support and reify the hegemonic projects of the state. In effect, the FMF draws upon the same imperialist and problematic ideas about women as those expressed by the Bush administration to protect Afghan women in the name of empire.---

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Engendering the Invisible Empire: Imperialism, Feminism, and US Women's History

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Twenty years of Worlds of Women: Leila Rupp's impact on the history of U.S. women's internationalism

Twenty years of Worlds of Women: Leila Rupp's impact on the history of U.S. women's internationalism

Women's Anti-Imperialism, “The White Man's Burden,” and the Philippine-American War

The Feminist Majority Foundation's Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid

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