Feminism and Empire (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
224
Utgivningsdatum
2007-09-01
Förlag
Routledge
Illustrationer
16 black & white halftones
Dimensioner
231 x 155 x 13 mm
Vikt
340 g
Antal komponenter
1
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49:B&W 6.14 x 9.21 in or 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780415250153

Feminism and Empire

Women Activists in Imperial Britain, 17901865

av Clare Midgley
Häftad,  Engelska, 2007-09-01
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Feminism and Empire establishes the foundational impact that Britain's position as leading imperial power had on the origins of modern western feminism. Based on extensive new research, this study exposes the intimate links between debates on the 'woman question' and the constitution of 'colonial discourse' in order to highlight the centrality of empire to white middle-class women's activism in Britain. The book begins by exploring the relationship between the construction of new knowledge about colonised others and the framing of debates on the 'woman question' among advocates of women's rights and their evangelical opponents. Moving on to examine white middle-class women's activism on imperial issues in Britain, topics include the anti-slavery boycott of Caribbean sugar, the campaign against widow-burning in colonial India, and womens role in the foreign missionary movement prior to direct employment by the major missionary societies. Finally, Clare Midgley highlights how the organised feminist movement which emerged in the late 1850s linked promotion of female emigration to Britain's white settler colonies to a new ideal of independent English womanhood. This original work throws fascinating new light on the roots of later 'imperial feminism' and contemporary debates concerning women's rights in an era of globalisation and neo-imperialism.
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Clare Midgley is Research Professor in History at Sheffield Hallam University. Her publications include Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870 (Routledge, 1995) and Gender and Imperialism (1998).

Innehållsförteckning

1. The 'Woman Question' in Imperial Britain 2. Sweetness and Power: The Domestic Woman and Anti-Slavery Politics 3. White Women Saving Brown Women?: The Campaign Against 4. Can Women be Missionaries?: Providential Imperialism and Female Agency 5. Feminism, Colonial Emigration and the New Model Englishwoman

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