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Twenty years of Worlds of Women : Leila Rupp's impact on the history of U.S. women's internationalism
Author(s) -
Threlkeld Megan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/hic3.12381
Subject(s) - internationalism (politics) , scholarship , political science , women's history , gender studies , religious studies , sociology , philosophy , law , politics
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.