This book reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and to the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the political in public and intimate spaces.

Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, History, Black Studies, and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Sandra Trudgen Dawson is Executive Administrator of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, USA.

Barbara Molony is Professor of Japanese History at Santa Clara University, USA, and specializes in women's rights, transnational feminisms, and East Asian gender constructions.

1. Introduction: Engendering transnational transgressions: from the intimate to the global 2. Matronage: a useful concept for understanding the involvement of women in the public sphere in ancient societies Part 1: Intimate transgressions: marriage and sexuality 3. Challenging gender, historicizing gossip: reflections on the life of Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir 4. The transgressive agency of the crossdressing soldier: the case of Anna Henryka Pustowójtówna (1838-1881), feminized masculinity, and insurgent Poland 5. Transnational interventions into the intimate: circling around Pandita Ramabai and The Little Wives of India 6. Divorce and legal separation in Australia c. 1900: a tale of two transgressive great great grandmothers 7. Challenging Indigenous marriage from within: memories of the Tiwi's Martina and the figure of Malinche 8. Transnational struggles for racial justice: Australian Indigenous women's marriages to American servicemen during the Second World War 9. Women's movements in 1970s Japan: transgression and rejection Part 2: Global transgressions: networking for justice and peace 10. Challenging the national political order with transnational languages: British women at the fourth international suffrage congress in Amsterdam, 1908 11. Petitioning for independence: Syrian and Lebanese women's transnational anti-colonialism, 1919-1939 12. Naming rape: historicizing women's human rights activism and agency in the Italo-Ethiopian war 13. Anti-fascist feminismo: suffrage, sovereignty and Popular-Front Pan-American feminism in Panama 14. Transgressive transnationalism: the anti-colonial strategies in the Women's International Democratic Federation 15. Borderless for peace: how transnational connections shaped Women Strike for Peace 16. The interpreter class: women in conflict engage the international human rights community 17. Transnational and transgenerational connections: gendering US-Japan educational exchange