Three decades of women’s history in the United States

International suffragists NY 1912. American feminism has been connected to the rest of the world from its inception. In the middle of the nineteenth century, women organizing for their rights in Seneca Falls New York and elsewhere in the US were in communication with European women fighting to have their sex included in the national democratic uprisings of 1848. (Fuller in Italy) By the end of the late nineteenth century, US women were active in organizations and networks of women that linked them to Europeans and white women of the European colonies of Asia and Africa(one of the most important international meetings of suffragists ever to take place was in Rome in 1923). Of course their sense of the universe of women was highly limited, by their elite class status and their Eurocentric outlook but their understandings were not parochial. There was even international cooperation in the organization of the first major libraries of women’s history , all in the late 1930s and early 1940s, simultaneously in