Burdens of history : British feminists, Indian women, and imperial culture, 1865-1915 /
In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperia...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1994.
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| Sumari: | In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperial ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (xi, 301 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585020566 9780585020563 0807860654 9780807860656 0807821616 9780807821619 0807844713 9780807844717 |