Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920

ISBN-13: 9780415635868 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 260 str.

Sharon Rosa Crozier-De; Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

Opis

This book places the concept of shame within a historical context. It examines how this emotion was used by popular writers (especially female writers) in the widespread backlash against feminism at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, in Britain, Ireland and Australia. Shame was considered to be an overwhelmingly appropriate weapon in the campaign against the aspirations and actions of the unwomanly woman. Trouble arose, however, when it appeared that these unwomanly women were either resistant to or incapable of experiencing this highly gendered emotion.

This study casts new light on just how intricately shame was linked with anxieties about the future of civilisation, and therefore with feminism, imperialism, nationalism, in the popular mentality of those inhabiting regions of the British Empire. The book examines the far-reaching implications feminism had for nation and empire, and uncovers the extent to which shame and shaming was relied on as a tool for social control among female writers of anti-feminist persuasion."

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Shaming Unwomanly Women  2. Reversing the Shame of British Colonisation  3. Embarrassing the Imperial Centre  4. Shaming British-Australia  5. War and the Dishonourable British Feminist  6. Shaming Manhood to Embody Courage  7. The Shame of the Violent Woman.  Conclusion

O autorze

Sharon Crozier-De Rosa is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Wollongong.