Gendering the Settler State: White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980

ISBN-13: 9780815381440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str.

Kate Law

Opis

This book argues that white women often held ambiguous, inconsistent and complicated attitudes towards issues such as race, liberalism, gender and empire, marking a significant departure from the current scholarship on women and empire, which has tended to situate them in ossified roles. In doing so, Gendering the Settler State argues for the importance of a more nuanced and fine-grained analysis of the role of white women in the colonial enterprise.

Spis treści

Introduction: Writing White Women, c. 1950-1980  1. Making Settlers Out of Pioneers: White Women and the Development of Rhodesia, 1890-1940  2. The Politics of Pots and Pans: Miriam Staunton, Gender Norms and the Federation of African Women’s Clubs, 1950-1970  3. "Think[ing] Black": Eileen Haddon, Multi-Racialism and Majority Rule, 1953-1965  4. Struggles Within the Struggle: Diana Mitchell, Opposition Politics, Liberalism, and Women’s Liberation, 1965-1979  5. "Imperialists Stuck in a Time Warp"?: White Women, Memory and the History of Rhodesia.  Conclusion: White Women in Colonial Rhodesia

O autorze

Kate Law is a women’s, gender and empire historian who specialises in twentieth-century sub-Saharan African history. She is currently a lecturer in Gender Studies in the centre for Africa studies at the University of the Free State, South Africa.