Gender and imperialism

This book marks an important new intervention into a vibrant area of scholarship, creating a dialogue between the histories of imperialism and of women and gender. By engaging critically with both traditional British imperial history and colonial discourse analysis, the essays demonstrate how femini...

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Weitere Verfasser: Midgley, Clare 1955- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 2005
Ausgabe:First digital, on-demand edition
Schriftenreihe:Studies in imperialism
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Gender and imperialism - mapping the connections / Clare Midgley
  • Part 1. Impositions and impacts: age of consent and hegemonic social reform / Himani Bannerji
  • White women and colonialism - a non-recuperative history / Jane Haggis
  • Part 2. Reactions and resistance: Indian Christian women and indigenous feminism / Padma Anagol
  • National liberation movements and the question of women's liberation - the Irish experience / Margaret Ward
  • Australian frontier feminism and the marauding white man / Marilyn Lake
  • Taking liberties - enslaved women and anti-slavery in the Caribbean / Hilary McD. Beckles
  • Part 3. The empire at home: anti-slavery and the roots of "imperial feminism" / Clare Midgley
  • Going-a-trolloping - imperial man travels the empire / Catherine Hall
  • Britain's conscience on Africa - white women, race and imperial politics in inter-war Britain / Barbara Bush