Overview
This edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage from an international perspective. Leading international scholars explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of social and political struggle, and examine the ideological and cultural implications of gendered constructions of ""race"", nation and empire. The book includes comprehensive case-studies of Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Palestine.
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Author: Ian Christopher Fletcher , Philippa Levine , Laura E. Nym Mayhall , Philippa Levine (University of Southern California, USA)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Volume: 3
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.521kg
ISBN: 9780415208055
ISBN 10: 041520805
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 06 July 2000
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Part 1 Re-thinking suffrage discourse; Chapter 1 The South African War and the origins of suffrage militancy in Britain, 1899–1902, Laura E. Nym Mayhall; Chapter 2 “States of injury”, Antoinette Burton; Chapter 3 “Racial poison”, Mariana Valverde; Chapter 4 Modernity and mother-heartedness, Judith Smart; Chapter 5 White maternity and black infancy, Pamela Scully; Part 2 Local feminisms in an imperial state; Chapter 6 An experiment in the social laboratory?, Raewyn Dalziel; Chapter 7 “Women of the Nations, Unite!”, Ian Christopher Fletcher; Chapter 8 “Pioneering representatives of the Hebrew people”, Ruth Abrams; Chapter 9 Nation, tradition and rights, Ellen Fleischmann; Part 3 Tracking the transnational; Chapter 10 British suffragists and Iranian women, 1906–1911, Mansour Bonakdarian; Chapter 11 “Making fresh Britains across the seas”, Donal Lowry; Chapter 12 Competing transnational representations of the 1930s Indian franchise question, Catherine Candy; Chapter 13 Australian women’s metropolitan activism, Angela Woollacott; Chapter 14 Suffragism and internationalism, Mrinalini Sinha;
Reviews
This collection of essays will play an important role in extending current understandings of how imperialist, nationalist and suffragist discourses interacted with one another in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....This book will be of interest to scholars researching suffrage history for its consideration of the role of trans/international and imperial ideologies in suffrage campaigns, as well as to anyone with an interest in colonial and postcolonial identities, or ideologies of nation and empire more generally.. <br>-Heloise Brown, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History <br> This is a rich volume and an important contribution to imperial studies. <br>- Choice <br>
'It is an outstanding review of the British Empire and the history of enfranchisement of women.' - Australian Popular Culture and Media Studies 'It is an outstanding review of the British Empire and the history of enfranchisement of women.' -Australian Popular Culture and Media Studies
Author Information
Ian Christopher Fletcher teaches history and women’s studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is co-editor of European Imperialism, 1830–1930 (with Alice L. Conklin) and a member of the Editorial Collective of Radical History Review., Laura E. Nym Mayhall is an assistant professor in the department of History at the Catholic University of America. She is currently completing a book on gender and citizenship in Britain, 1867–1930., Philippa Levine teaches history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Feminist Lives in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment and The Amateur and the Professional: Historians, Antiquarians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838–1886.
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