Gender and Empire

ISBN-13: 9780333926451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 176 str.

Angela Woollacott

Opis

This is the first single-authored book to survey the role of gender in the "new imperial history." Through key topics and episodes across a broad range of British Empire history, Angela Woollacott examines how gender ideologies and practices affected both sexes and saturated imperial politics and culture.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Women and Unfree Labour in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Slavery, Convict Transportation, Emancipation and Indentured Labour.- Narratives of Interracial Sexual Assault and Crises of Imperial Rule.- Masculinities, Imperial Adventuring and Wars.- Gender and Everyday Life in Colonial Regimes.- Women in Anti-Colonial and Nationalist Movements.- Gender and Empire in the Metropole.- Conclusion.- Select Bibliography.

O autorze

ANGELA WOOLLACOTT is Professor of Modern History at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her books include On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (1994) and To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity (2001).

Blurb

One of the first single-authored books to survey the role of sex and gender in the 'new imperial history', Gender and Empire covers the whole British Empire, demonstrating connections and comparisons between the white-settler colonies, and the colonies of exploitation and rule. Through key topics and episodes across a broad range of British Empire history, Angela Woollacott examines how gender ideologies and practices affected women and men, and structured imperial politics and culture. Woollacott integrates twenty years of scholarship, providing fresh insights and interpretation using feminist and postcolonial approaches.

Fiction and other vivid primary sources present the voices of historical subjects, enlivening discussions of central topics and debates in imperial and colonial history. The circulation of imperial culture and colonial subjects along with conceptions of gender and race reveals the integrated nature of British colonialism from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Authoritative and approachable, this is essential reading for students of world history, imperial history and gender relations.