This is our growing collection of  works that discuss or usefully employ a comparative framework in women's history. If you have a suggestion for this page please contact Marisa Brandt at bran0368@umn.edu

Published Work:

Blom, Ida. "Global Women's History: Organizing Principles and Cross-Cultural Understanding." in Writing Women's History,  eds. Karen Offen, Ruthe Roach Pierson, and Jane Rendall, 135-150. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Brown, Kathleen. "Brave New Worlds: Women's and Gender History." William and Mary Quarterly 50: 2 (April 1993): 311-28.

Grayzel, Susan R. "Fighting for Their Rights: A Comparative Perspective on Twentieth-Century Women's Movements in Australia, Great Britain, and the United States." Journal of Women's History 11:1 (Spring 1999) : 210-218.

Johnson-Odin, Cheryl and Margaret Strobel.  "Conceptualizing the History of Women in
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and the Middle East." Journal of Women's History 1:1 (Spring 1989) : 31-62.

Koven, Seth and Sonya Michel, "Womanly Duties: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States, 1880-1920." The American Historical Review 95:4 (1990) : 1092-93.

Maynes, Mary Jo, Ann Waltner, Birgitte Soland, and Ulrike Strasser, eds. Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative Inderdisciplinary History. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Michel, Sonya. "The Comparative Turn: Is Women's History Ready?" Journal of Women's History 10:2 (Summer 1998) : 188-97.

Offen, Karen. "Defining Feminism: a Comparative Historical Approach." in Beyond Equality and Difference : Citizenship, Feminist Politics, and Female Subjectivity, eds. Gisela Bock and Susan James, 79-88. New York:  Routledge, 1992.

Painter, Nell Irving. "French Theories in American Settings: Some Thoughts on Transferability." Journal of Women's History 1:1 (Spring 1989) : 92-95.

Smith, Hilda. "Are We Ready for a Comparative Historiography?" Journal of Women's History 1:1 (Spring 1989) : 31-62.

Unpublished Work from University of Minnesota

Ryan, Jenny. Readings in Japanese Feminism: Forging a Conversation