Format:
Online-Ressource (277 p)
ISBN:
9780415208055
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Gender and History v.3
Content:
This edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage from an international perspective. Leading international scholars explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of social and political struggle, and examine the ideological and cultural implications of gendered constructions of 'race', nation and empire. The book includes comprehensive case-studies of Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Palestine
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, nation and race; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Re-thinking suffrage discourse; 1. The South African War and the origins of suffrage militancy in Britain, 1899-1902; 2. "States of injury": Josephine Butler on slavery, citizenship, and the Boer War; 3. "Racial poison": drink, male vice, and degeneration in first-wave feminism; 4. Modernity and mother-heartedness: spirituality and religious meaning in Australian women's suffrage and citizenship movements, 1890s-1920s
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5. White maternity and black infancy: the rhetoric of race in the South African women's suffrage movement, 1895-1930Part II: Local feminisms in an imperial state; 6. An experiment in the social laboratory? Suffrage, national identity, and mythologies of race in New Zealand in the 1890s; 7. "Women of the Nations, Unite!": transnational suffragism in the United Kingdom, 1912-1914; 8. "Pioneering representatives of the Hebrew people": Campaigns of the Palestinian Jewish Women's Equal Rights Association, 1918-1948
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9. Nation, tradition and rights: the indigenous feminism of the Palestinian women's movement, 1929-1948Part III: Tracking the transnational; 10. British suffragists and Iranian women, 1906-1911; 11. "Making fresh Britains across the seas": imperial authority and anti-feminism in Rhodesia; 12. Competing transnational representations of the 1930s Indian frenchise question; 13. Australian women's metropolitan activism: from suffrage, to imperial vanguard, to Commonwealth feminism; 14. Suffragism and internationalism: the enfranchisement of British and Indian women under an imperial state; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781135639921
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415208055
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Women's Suffrage in the British Empire : Citizenship, Nation and Race
Language:
English
Keywords:
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