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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1. Verfasser: Burton, Antoinette M., 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1994.
Online-Zugang:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1558
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The politics of recovery: historicizing imperial feminism, 1865-1915
  • Woman in the nation: feminism, race, and empire in the "National" culture
  • Female emancipation and the other woman
  • Reading Indian women: feminist periodicals and imperial identity
  • The White woman's burden: Josephine Butler and the Indian campaign, 1886-1915
  • A girdle round the earth: British imperial suffrage and the ideology of global sisterhood
  • Representation, empire, and feminist history.