Book Project

Transnational feminism · imperialism · Nationalism

My third book project, Across and Against National Boundaries: Polish Women’s Activism in Prussian Colonial Poland, 1885-1914, explores how rightwing women operated transnationally in the late nineteenth century. Whereas fin de siècle leftist women’s movements often interacted within frameworks of socialism and sisterhood, rightwing women lobbied for rights within the framework of imperialism. Concentrating on the German imperial context in partitioned Poland, I suggest that conservative women’s political work functioned competitively, chafing at imperialism’s desire to “civilize” them.