WomenhuNET: Women's Transnational Humanitarian Networks. Anti-Fascist British Women and Europe Refugees (1900-1950)

在20世纪30年代和40年代，英国女性在拯救反法西斯活动家和欧洲难民方面发挥了至关重要的作用，但在很大程度上被忽视了。然而，现有的史学倾向于仅在英国的背景下理解这些女性，而不是在她们所在的跨国、欧洲网络中。然而，我们认为，英国妇女的人道主义行动主义被配置为一个网络，具有跨国维度，汇集了20世纪初女权主义和20世纪30年代反法西斯主义的假设。相应地，女性网专注于分析英国妇女动员起来帮助难民逃离法西斯主义的轨迹，目的是重建她们的行动主义所在的妇女跨国人道主义网络。这种方法还将帮助我们更好地理解欧盟的起源，以及英国在这些起源中的地位，这些起源在一定程度上源于反法西斯传统和捍卫民主价值观。这个项目将解决三个主要问题：是什么社会和政治途径导致英国妇女参与反法西斯难民救济运动？她们的行动和言论产生了什么变革影响？她们在反法西斯救国运动期间是哪些跨国网络的一部分？他们在人道主义经历期间和之后形成了什么身份、权力和权威，性别和跨国行动如何塑造了他们？遵循微观历史和跨国分析的方法论，我们将使用迄今为止几乎没有探索过的一大批原始资料，存放在英国、西班牙、法国、瑞士、荷兰和美国的档案馆。结果将以各种方式传播，特别是通过一次国际会议、一篇文章、一篇发表在影响力很大的期刊上的文章，以及一本提交给一家主要大学出版社的书。

British women played a vital but largely overlooked role in saving anti-fascist activists and European refugees in the 1930s and 1940s.However, the existing historiography tends to understand these women solely within the British context and not within thetransnational, European networks in which they operated. Yet we argue that British women's humanitarian activism was configuredas a network, had a transnational dimension and brought together the postulates of early 20th century feminism and 1930s antifascism.Accordingly, WomenhuNET focuses on analysing the trajectories of British women who mobilised to help refugees fleeingfascism, with the aim of reconstructing the women's transnational humanitarian networks in which their activism was inserted. Thisapproach will also help us better understand the origins of the European Union, and the place of the UK in these beginnings, which inpart grew out of the anti-fascist tradition and the defence of democratic values. This project will address three main questions: whatsocial and political pathways led British women to become involved in anti-fascist refugee relief campaigns and what was thetransformative impact of their actions and rhetoric?, which transnational networks they were part of during their anti-fascisthumanitarian activism? and what identities, power and authority they developed during and after their humanitarian experience andhow gender and the transnational action shaped them? Following a methodology of micro-historical and transnational analysis, wewill work with a large corpus of primary sources scarcely explored to date, deposited in archives of the UK, Spain, France, Switzerland,Netherlands and the US. The results will be disseminated in a variety of ways, notably through an international conference, an articlein high-impact journals and a book submitted to a major university press.