《東京セミナー》基調講演 女性教育のトランスナショナルな展開と国際的ネットワーク ―イギリス・アメリカ・日本― (Transnational Perspectives and International Networks of Women’s Education: Britain, the United States and Japan)

(English Abstract - the article is in Japanese and English). The article reviews a range of approaches to history beyond the nation that have shaped gender studies of in history of education from a transnational perspective. It begins by identifying what have been variously termed global history, world history, transnational history and translocal history. It then looks at transnational approaches and new imperial histories; entangled histories and languages of co-operation; and transnational engagements and national and regional structures. It uses Inoue Hide’s 1921 speech at Wellesley College, Boston USA, to look at contrasting narratives in networks of women educators crossing the United states and Japan; and it traces Kawai Michi’s 1921 journey to Europe and America in order to think about the relationship between institution building, networking and women’s opportunities for transnational engagement. The article concludes that women’s conversations about education become entangled and circulated as women’s networks created new spaces of transnational connection and of education. Women’s engagement in scientific and cultural internationalism formed channels through which women’s activity became visible in international structures that facilitated and / or constrained women’s activity in the transnational realm. The article ends by stressing the importance of recognising the history of women’s education in the field of transnational history.