1st Edition
Feminism and Empire Women Activists in Imperial Britain, 1790–1865
By Clare Midgley
Copyright 2007
224 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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Feminism and Empire establishes the foundational impact that Britain's position as leading imperial power had on the origins of modern western feminism. Based on extensive new research, this study exposes the intimate links between debates on the 'woman question' and the constitution of 'colonial discourse' in order to highlight the centrality of empire to white middle-class women's activism in... Read more
1. The 'Woman Question' in Imperial Britain 2. Sweetness and Power: The Domestic Woman and Anti-Slavery Politics 3. White Women Saving Brown Women?: The Campaign Against 4. Can Women be Missionaries?: Providential Imperialism and Female Agency 5. Feminism, Colonial Emigration and the New Model Englishwoman
Biography
Clare Midgley is Research Professor in History at Sheffield Hallam University. Her publications include Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870 (Routledge, 1995) and Gender and Imperialism (1998).
"The empirical breadth and bibliographic depth of vision on display in this volume reveal a senior scholar at the top of her game. Each of the case studies makes a persuasive and original interventions in the overlapping field of British women's and imperial history...Students should find any one or all of its chapters accessible, while scholars at every level will find its conceptualization, argument, and bibliography an invaluable 'must read'." - Susan Thorne, Duke University, USA in the Journal of Global History, Vol.6/3
