“Women of the World Unite”: Frieda Hauswirth Das, Women’s Education, and Feminist Knowledge Transfers between India and Switzerland
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2023-05Type
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In the 1930s, the books of Frieda Hauswirth Das were some of the most popular publications on India in the Swiss public sphere. As a woman born in rural Switzerland who emigrated to the US and later to India, and who was married to an Indian man, Hauswirth’s life fascinated audiences in Switzerland just as much as her writing. This chapter takes a closer look at how various experiences and encounters in Switzerland, the US, and India shaped Hauswirth’s political consciousness and how she eventually translated her core beliefs around feminism as well as colonialism into her writing, presenting Swiss readers with an unusually candid and political image of India. Show more
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Interweaving Histories - Itineraries between Switzerland and India (1900–1950)Pages / Article No.
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South Asian History; Global history; Swiss history; biography; Feminism; US History; Anti-Colonialism; Transnational History; women's history; GenderOrganisational unit
03814 - Fischer-Tiné, Harald / Fischer-Tiné, Harald
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188107 - A global biography: Frieda Hauswirth Das (1886-1974) between Switzerland, California, and India (SNF)
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