| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Leila J. Rupp. Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1997. Pp. xiii, 325. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95.

This fine study by Leila J. Rupp addresses the surprisingly neglected topic, at least until recently, of the international women's movement. Its approach is that of transnational history, a relatively new undertaking, not least because of the centrality of the nation to mainstream histories of the modern world in the West, and the consciousness of the nation that has often informed how historical evidence comes to be collected, stored, and sifted. The sheer scale of research entailed is daunting to contemplate, requiring as it does locating and investigating source materials in libraries and archives around the world, very often in languages other than English. Some of this material was previously thought to have been lost or destroyed, until her work led Rupp to make some "lucky finds," luck nonetheless that evidently reflected the breadth of scholarship that she brought to the exercise. . . .

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