The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820-1940

As competing American, European, and later Japanese imperial and colonial ambitions spread across the ocean in the nineteenth century, Honolulu emerged as a transnational hub for the exchange of ideas. Rumi Yasutake reveals the pivotal role of women’s organizing in this era of rapid globalization, tracing how diverse movements intersected and converged in Hawai‘i—with worldwide consequences.

The Feminist Pacific examines transnational networks in Hawai‘i beginning in 1820, with the arrival o...