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
women's 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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