Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash - Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920 (Hardcover)

Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash examines how women opposed to the feminist campaign for the vote in early twentieth-century Britain, Ireland, and Australia used shame as a political tool. It demonstrates just how proficient women were in employing a diverse vocabulary of emotions - drawing on concepts like embarrassment, humiliation, honour, courage, and chivalry - in the attempt to achieve their political goals. It looks at how far nationalist contexts informed each gendered emotional community at a time when British imperial networks were under extreme duress. The book presents a unique history of gender and shame which demonstrates just how versatile and ever-present this social emotion was in the feminist politics of the British Empire in the early decades of the twentieth century. It employs a fascinating new thematic lens to histories of anti-feminist/feminist entanglements by tracing national and transnational uses of emotions by women to police their own political communities. It also challenges the common notion that shame had little place in a modernizing world by revealing how far groups of patriotic womanhood, globally, deployed shame to combat the effects of feminist activism.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Gender and History
Release date:	December 2017
First published:	2016
Authors:	Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	260
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-63586-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-415-63586-1
Barcode:	9780415635868

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