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This book looks back to the period 1860 to 1950 in order to grasp
how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged
between people of faith, both within and resistant to imperial
contact zones. It argues that networks of faith and friendship
played a vital role in forging new vocabularies of cosmopolitanism
that presaged the post-imperial world of the 1950s. In focussing on
the diverse cosmopolitanisms articulated within liberal
transnational networks of faith it is not intended to reduce or
ignore the centrality of racisms, and especially hegemonic
whiteness, in underpinning the spaces and subjectivities that these
networks formed within and through. Rather, the book explores how
new forms of cosmopolitanism could be articulated despite the
awkward complicities and liminalities inhabited by individuals and
characteristic of cosmopolitan thought zones.
This comprehensive study of women anti-slavery campaigners fills a
serious gap in abolitionist history. Covering all stages of the
campaign, Women Against Slavery uses hitherto neglected sources to
build up a vivid picture of the lives, words and actions of the
women who were involved, and their distinctive contribution to the
abolitionist movement. It looks at the way women's participation
influenced the organisation, activities, policy and ideology of the
campaign, and analyses the impact of female activism on women's own
attitudes to their social roles, and their participation in public
life. Exploring the vital role played by gender in shaping the
movement as a whole, this book makes an important contribution to
the debate on race' and gender.
Creates a dialogue between the histories of imperialism and of
women and gender. By engaging critically with both traditional
history and colonial discourse analysis, the essays demonstrate how
feminist historians can play a central role in creating new
histories of British imperialism. arranged into three sections,
dealing respectively with the imposition and impact of British
imperial control, reactions and resistances, and the impact of the
Empire within Britain. Chronologically, the focus is on the
late-18th to early-20th centuries, while geographically the essays
range from the Caribbean to Australia and span India, Africa,
Ireland and Britain itself. Topics explored include the question of
female agency in imperial contexts, the relationships between
feminisms and nationalisms, and questions of sexuality, masculinity
and imperial power.
This comprehensive study of women anti-slavery campaigners fills a
serious gap in abolitionist history. Covering all stages of the
campaign, Women Against Slavery uses hitherto neglected sources to
build up a vivid picture of the lives, words and actions of the
women who were involved, and their distinctive contribution to the
abolitionist movement. It looks at the way women's participation
influenced the organisation, activities, policy and ideology of the
campaign, and analyses the impact of female activism on women's own
attitudes to their social roles, and their participation in public
life. Exploring the vital role played by gender in shaping the
movement as a whole, this book makes an important contribution to
the debate on `race' and gender.
Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives
on the field of women's history, exploring how cross-border
connections and global developments since the nineteenth century
have shaped diverse women's lives and the gendered social,
cultural, political and economic histories of specific localities.
The book is divided into three thematically-organised parts,
covering gendered histories of transnational networks, women's
agency in the intersecting histories of imperialisms and
nationalisms, and the concept of localizing the global and
globalizing the local. Discussing a broad spectrum of topics from
the politics of dress in Philippine mission stations in the early
twentieth century to the shifting food practices of British women
during the Second World War, the chapters bring women to the centre
of the writing of new transnational histories. Illustrated with
images and figures, this book throws new light on key global themes
from the perspective of women's and gender history. Written by an
international team of editors and contributors, it is a valuable
and timely resource for students and researchers of both women's
history and transnational and global history.
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.
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.
This book looks back to the period 1860 to 1950 in order to grasp
how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged
between people of faith, both within and resistant to imperial
contact zones. It argues that networks of faith and friendship
played a vital role in forging new vocabularies of cosmopolitanism
that presaged the post-imperial world of the 1950s. In focussing on
the diverse cosmopolitanisms articulated within liberal
transnational networks of faith it is not intended to reduce or
ignore the centrality of racisms, and especially hegemonic
whiteness, in underpinning the spaces and subjectivities that these
networks formed within and through. Rather, the book explores how
new forms of cosmopolitanism could be articulated despite the
awkward complicities and liminalities inhabited by individuals and
characteristic of cosmopolitan thought zones.
Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives
on the field of women's history, exploring how cross-border
connections and global developments since the nineteenth century
have shaped diverse women's lives and the gendered social,
cultural, political and economic histories of specific localities.
The book is divided into three thematically-organised parts,
covering gendered histories of transnational networks, women's
agency in the intersecting histories of imperialisms and
nationalisms, and the concept of localizing the global and
globalizing the local. Discussing a broad spectrum of topics from
the politics of dress in Philippine mission stations in the early
twentieth century to the shifting food practices of British women
during the Second World War, the chapters bring women to the centre
of the writing of new transnational histories. Illustrated with
images and figures, this book throws new light on key global themes
from the perspective of women's and gender history. Written by an
international team of editors and contributors, it is a valuable
and timely resource for students and researchers of both women's
history and transnational and global history.
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