Nation, Empire, Colony

Ruth Roach Pierson, Professor of Women's History and Feminist Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, is the author of "They're Still Women After All": The Second World War and Canadian Womanhood, Women and Peace: Theoretical, Historical, and Practical Perspectives, and co-editor of No Easy Road: Women in Canada 1920s to 1960s, and of Writing Women's History: International Perspectives.Nupur Chaudhuri, who teaches at Kansas State University, is the co-editor of Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance, and co-editor of a special issue on "Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality: National and Global Perspectives" for the National Women's Studies Journal. She has written extensively on gender and imperialism and her articles have appeared in Journal of Women's History, Women's History Review, and Victorian Studies.

• IntroductionRuth Roach PiersonChapter OneMaori Agriculturalists and Aboriginal Hunter-Gatherers: Women and Colonial Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Aotearoa/New Zealand and Southeastern AustraliaPatricia GrimshawChapter TwoEnfranchising Women of Color: Woman Suffragists as Agents of ImperialismRosalyn Terborg-PennChapter ThreeGendered Colonialism: The "Woman Question" in Settler SocietyDolores E. JaniewskiChapter FourActions Louder than Words: The Historical Task of Defining Feminist Consciousness in Colonial West AfricaCheryl Johnson-OdimChapter FiveFrontier Feminism and the Marauding White Man: Australia, 1890s to 1940sMarilyn LakeChapter SixThe Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution: Constructions of Feminism and NationalismGabriela CanoChapter SevenThe Politics of Irish Identity and the Interconnections between Feminism, Nationhood and ColonialismBreda Gray and Louise RyanChapter EightCohabiting and Conflicting Identities: Women and Nationalisms in Twentieth-Century IranJoanna de GrootChapter NineOrthodoxy, Cultural Nationalism and Hindutva Violence: An Overview of the Gender Ideology of the Hindu RightTanika SarkarChapter TenSurviving Absence: Jewishness and Femininity in Liberation France, 1944-45Karen AdlerChapter ElevenMen, Women and the Community Borders: German-Nationalist and National Socialist Discourses on Gender, "Race," and National Identity in Austria, 1918-1938Johanna GehmacherChapter TwelveImages of Sara Bartman: Sexuality, Race and Gender in Early Nineteenth-Century BritainYvette AbrahamsChapter ThirteenSexual and Racial Discrimination: An Historical Inquiry into the Japanese Military's "Comfort" Women System of Enforced ProstitutionSayoko YonedaChapter FourteenVacations in the "Contact Zone": Race, Gender and the Traveller at Niagara FallsKaren DubinskyChapter FifteenUprooted Women: Partition of Punjab, 1947Aparna BasuChapter SixteenPolitics and the Writing of HistoryHimani BannerjiGabriela CanoChapter SevenThe Politics of Irish Identity and the Interconnections between Feminism, Nationhood and ColonialismBreda Gray and Louise RyanChapter EightCohabiting and Conflicting Identities: Women and Nationalisms in Twentieth-Century IranJoanna de GrootChapter NineOrthodoxy, Cultural Nationalism and Hindutva Violence: An Overview of the Gender Ideology of the Hindu RightTanika SarkarChapter TenSurviving Absence: Jewishness and Femininity in Liberation France, 1944-45Karen AdlerChapter ElevenMen, Women and the Community Borders: German-Nationalist and National Socialist Discourses on Gender, "Race," and National Identity in Austria, 1918-1938Johanna GehmacherChapter TwelveImages of Sara Bartman: Sexuality, Race and Gender in Early Nineteenth-Century BritainYvette AbrahamsChapter ThirteenSexual and Racial Discrimination: An Historical Inquiry into the Japanese Military's "Comfort" Women System of Enforced ProstitutionSayoko YonedaChapter FourteenVacations in the "Contact Zone": Race, Gender and the Traveller at Niagara FallsKaren DubinskyChapter FifteenUprooted Women: Partition of Punjab, 1947Aparna BasuChapter SixteenPolitics and the Writing of HistoryHimani Bannerji