Women’s networks
proliferated during the long nineteenth century in the Atlantic World and began
spreading globally.<i> Connecting</i> <i>Women
</i>features presentations from the second
conference of the Intercontinental Cross-Currents Network, “The Dynamics of
Power: Inclusion and Exclusion in Women’s Networks during the Long Nineteenth
Century,” held in 2016 at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal.
Intercontinental Cross-Currents provides a cooperative platform for researchers
from all scholarly disciplines interested in the literal and metaphorical
networks created and navigated by women from the European and American
continents from 1776 to 1939—the so-called long nineteenth century. Organized
by the University’s Institute of Arts and Humanities’ Centre for Humanistic Studies
and the Department of English and North American Studies, the conference
brought together international participants who investigated mechanisms of
inclusion and exclusion within women’s networks forged in Britain, France,
Italy, the Philippines, Portugal, and the United States. <i>Connecting Women </i>delves
into both literary networks and those with social and political agendas that
centered around temperance associations, anti-slavery societies, crime
syndicates, suffragism, political organizations, and war relief.
Connecting Women: National and International Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century