Inventing Commonwealth and Pan-Pacific Feminisms: Australian Women's Internationalist Activism in the 1920s-30s

In the interwar decades Australian feminists led the establishment of the British Commonwealth League, and were active in the early years of the Pan-Pacific Women's Association. In both arenas, they broadened the geographical base of feminist internationalism. At the same time they pushed racial and cultural inclusion in international feminism, albeit in limited ways that maintained prominent roles for white women.