Angela Woollacott
Gender and Empire
Buch
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…
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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.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-333-92644-4
- EAN: 9780333926444
- Produktnummer: 23246617
- Verlag: Springer Nature EN
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Masse: 1 Ex.; H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm 0 g
- Abbildungen: Book
- Sonstiges: Lower undergraduate
Über den Autor
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).
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