Susan Pedersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Pedersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Pedersen |
| SIGNATURE | PEDERSEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2018The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Balfour Family
Given on the centenary of women's suffrage, this lecture explores the tensions and conflicts the claim for the vote raised among elite women already enmeshed in parliamentary and political circles. Drawing on the unbuttoned and sometimes angry correspondence among A.J. Balfour's suffragist sisters-in-law Lady Frances Balfour and Lady Betty Balfour, Frances' collaborator (and suffragist leader) Millicent Fawcett, Lady Betty's militant suffragette …
An International Regime in an Age of Empire
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civilizationist discourse, entrusting sovereignty over "peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world" to …
D aniel B rückenhaus . Policing Transnational Protest
In Policing Transnational Protest, Daniel Brückenhaus tracks how Britain and France constructed transnational policing practices and institutions in the first half of the twentieth century in order to monitor and combat anti-imperial movements that were, themselves, increasingly international. Indian and Indochinese activists had discovered even before World War I that anticolonial organizing might be less harshly repressed in the imperial metrop…
Internationalisms
The Guardians
The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. The land empires fragmented, while Germany's colonies and the Ottoman Empire's Middle East provinces fell into allied hands. All Allied powers wanted to keep those conquests, but Woodrow Wilson and millions around the globe afire for self-determination thought otherwise. At the Paris Peace conference it was agreed that the new conquests would be governed under ‘mandate’ from the League of …
Catholicism, Feminism, and the Politics of the Family during the late Third Republic
Independent social supports for all mothers—"the endowment of motherhood"— can be seen as the ultimate vision of maternalist feminism. The French institution of family allowances was one of the success stories of social intervention in the interwar period. Although the introduction of social insurance in France lagged twenty years behind Britain and forty years behind Germany, in the case of family allowances business interests complemented the p…
Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century
Postcolonial states and metropolitan societies still grapple today with the divisive and difficult legacies unleashed by settler colonialism. Whether they were settled for trade or geopolitical reasons, these settler communities had in common their shaping of landholding, laws, and race relations in colonies throughout the world. By looking at the detail of settlements in the twentieth century--from European colonial projects in Africa and expans…
Getting Out of Iraq—in 1932
ON OCTOBER 3, 1932, THE thirteenth annual assembly of the League of Nations voted unanimously to admit the Kingdom of Iraq to membership. Part of the Ottoman territory occupied by the Allied powers during the First World War and then turned over to British administration under League of Nations oversight, Iraq was the first—and would, in fact, remain the only—mandated territory to shed its tutelary status and be granted independence through colle…
Back to the League of Nations
For the two decades of its effective existence, the League of Nations was a favored subject of academic research. International lawyers, historians, and political scientists across the globe scrutinized and debated every aspect of its working; leading American scholars of the period—among them James Shotwell, Quincy Wright, and Raymond Leslie Buell—devoted much of their lives to investigating (and often to supporting) its ideals.1 The League's de…
What is Political History Now?
Of all forms of historical writing, political history is surely the one that needs no justification. Since it treats questions of power and resistance, authority and legitimacy, order and obedience, not only professional historians but everyone hoping to live out their days in a modicum of peace and prosperity has a stake in such scholarship. Questions of the ways in which political systems evolve and gain legitimacy, the character and actions of…
Gender and the Welfare State
Burdens of History
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State. Britain and France, 1914-45
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State
Labour at War
Abbreviations Note on terms List of figures and tables The context The 'Choice of 1914': Labour participation in the national efforts during the war Responding to the war: the French labour movement and wartime problems Planning the post-war world: the French labour movement and reform 1915-1916 Consolidating reformism: the French labour movement 1917-1918 The road to 'reconstruction': the British labour movement and post-war reform 1914-1918 Lab…
National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts
The Failure of Feminism in the Making of the British Welfare State
Research Article| January 01 1989 The Failure of Feminism in the Making of the British Welfare State Susan Pedersen Susan Pedersen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (43): 86–110. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1989-43-86 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Pedersen; The Failure of Feminism in the Making of the British Welfare State. Radical Hi…
National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts
Getting Out of Iraq—in 1932
ON OCTOBER 3, 1932, THE thirteenth annual assembly of the League of Nations voted unanimously to admit the Kingdom of Iraq to membership. Part of the Ottoman territory occupied by the Allied powers during the First World War and then turned over to British administration under League of Nations oversight, Iraq was the first—and would, in fact, remain the only—mandated territory to shed its tutelary status and be granted independence through colle…
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State
The Failure of Feminism in the Making of the British Welfare State
Research Article| January 01 1989 The Failure of Feminism in the Making of the British Welfare State Susan Pedersen Susan Pedersen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (43): 86–110. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1989-43-86 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Pedersen; The Failure of Feminism in the Making of the British Welfare State. Radical Hi…
Gender and the Welfare State
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State. Britain and France, 1914-45
Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2018The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Balfour Family
Given on the centenary of women's suffrage, this lecture explores the tensions and conflicts the claim for the vote raised among elite women already enmeshed in parliamentary and political circles. Drawing on the unbuttoned and sometimes angry correspondence among A.J. Balfour's suffragist sisters-in-law Lady Frances Balfour and Lady Betty Balfour, Frances' collaborator (and suffragist leader) Millicent Fawcett, Lady Betty's militant suffragette …
The Failure of Feminism in the Making of the British Welfare State
Research Article| January 01 1989 The Failure of Feminism in the Making of the British Welfare State Susan Pedersen Susan Pedersen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (43): 86–110. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1989-43-86 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Pedersen; The Failure of Feminism in the Making of the British Welfare State. Radical Hi…
National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts
Labour at War
Abbreviations Note on terms List of figures and tables The context The 'Choice of 1914': Labour participation in the national efforts during the war Responding to the war: the French labour movement and wartime problems Planning the post-war world: the French labour movement and reform 1915-1916 Consolidating reformism: the French labour movement 1917-1918 The road to 'reconstruction': the British labour movement and post-war reform 1914-1918 Lab…
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State. Britain and France, 1914-45
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State
Burdens of History
Gender and the Welfare State
What is Political History Now?
Of all forms of historical writing, political history is surely the one that needs no justification. Since it treats questions of power and resistance, authority and legitimacy, order and obedience, not only professional historians but everyone hoping to live out their days in a modicum of peace and prosperity has a stake in such scholarship. Questions of the ways in which political systems evolve and gain legitimacy, the character and actions of…
Back to the League of Nations
For the two decades of its effective existence, the League of Nations was a favored subject of academic research. International lawyers, historians, and political scientists across the globe scrutinized and debated every aspect of its working; leading American scholars of the period—among them James Shotwell, Quincy Wright, and Raymond Leslie Buell—devoted much of their lives to investigating (and often to supporting) its ideals.1 The League's de…
Getting Out of Iraq—in 1932
ON OCTOBER 3, 1932, THE thirteenth annual assembly of the League of Nations voted unanimously to admit the Kingdom of Iraq to membership. Part of the Ottoman territory occupied by the Allied powers during the First World War and then turned over to British administration under League of Nations oversight, Iraq was the first—and would, in fact, remain the only—mandated territory to shed its tutelary status and be granted independence through colle…
Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century
Postcolonial states and metropolitan societies still grapple today with the divisive and difficult legacies unleashed by settler colonialism. Whether they were settled for trade or geopolitical reasons, these settler communities had in common their shaping of landholding, laws, and race relations in colonies throughout the world. By looking at the detail of settlements in the twentieth century--from European colonial projects in Africa and expans…
Catholicism, Feminism, and the Politics of the Family during the late Third Republic
Independent social supports for all mothers—"the endowment of motherhood"— can be seen as the ultimate vision of maternalist feminism. The French institution of family allowances was one of the success stories of social intervention in the interwar period. Although the introduction of social insurance in France lagged twenty years behind Britain and forty years behind Germany, in the case of family allowances business interests complemented the p…
The Guardians
The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. The land empires fragmented, while Germany's colonies and the Ottoman Empire's Middle East provinces fell into allied hands. All Allied powers wanted to keep those conquests, but Woodrow Wilson and millions around the globe afire for self-determination thought otherwise. At the Paris Peace conference it was agreed that the new conquests would be governed under ‘mandate’ from the League of …
Internationalisms
D aniel B rückenhaus . Policing Transnational Protest
In Policing Transnational Protest, Daniel Brückenhaus tracks how Britain and France constructed transnational policing practices and institutions in the first half of the twentieth century in order to monitor and combat anti-imperial movements that were, themselves, increasingly international. Indian and Indochinese activists had discovered even before World War I that anticolonial organizing might be less harshly repressed in the imperial metrop…
Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2018The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Balfour Family
Given on the centenary of women's suffrage, this lecture explores the tensions and conflicts the claim for the vote raised among elite women already enmeshed in parliamentary and political circles. Drawing on the unbuttoned and sometimes angry correspondence among A.J. Balfour's suffragist sisters-in-law Lady Frances Balfour and Lady Betty Balfour, Frances' collaborator (and suffragist leader) Millicent Fawcett, Lady Betty's militant suffragette …
An International Regime in an Age of Empire
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civilizationist discourse, entrusting sovereignty over "peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world" to …
Political science (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (13 works) · History (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economic history (6 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (5 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (5 works)