Glamour in the Pacific

Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women's Pan-Pacific

Bibliographic Data

ID19979959
AuthorsFiona Paisley (0000-0002-4910-5087, corresponding author)
Year2009
Pages291
Publication date2009-07-08
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGlamour in the Pacific (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.21313/hawaii/9780824833428.001.0001
OpenAlexW4245204047
Open LibraryOL23180493M
ISBN9780824833428
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDFaJUnnYxOlYC
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Since its inception in 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women's Association (PPWA) has witnessed and contributed to enormous changes in world and Pacific history. This women's network established a series of conferences that promoted social reform and an internationalist outlook through cultural exchange. The association's vision was enormously attractive for the many women who joined, despite that as individuals and national representatives they remained deeply divided by colonial histories. This book tells this multifaceted story. Early chapters consider the first PPWA conferences and the decolonizing process undergone by the association. Following World War II, a new generation of nonwhite women from decolonized and settler colonial nations began to claim leadership roles in the Association, challenging the often Eurocentric assumptions of women's internationalism. In 1955 the first African American delegate brought to the fore questions about the relationship of U.S. race relations with the Pan-Pacific cultural internationalist project. The effects of Cold War geopolitics on the ideal of international cooperation in the era of decolonization were also considered. The book concludes with a discussion of the revival of “East meets West” as a basis for world cooperation endorsed by the United Nations in 1958 and the overall contributions of the PPWA to world culture politics. The book tells the stories of this extraordinary group of women and illuminates the challenges and rewards of their politics of antiracism—one that still resonates today

Colonialism · Decolonization · Internationalism (politics) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · World War II · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Feminism · Intercultural communication · Pacific Area · Pan Pacific Women's Association · politics and government

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