Crozier-De Rosa Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash

Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-136-20073-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 29, 270 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and History

Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash examines how women opposed to the feminist campaign for the vote in early twentieth-century Britain, Ireland, and Australia used shame as a political tool. It demonstrates just how proficient women were in employing a diverse vocabulary of emotions – drawing on concepts like embarrassment, humiliation, honour, courage, and chivalry – in the attempt to achieve their political goals. It looks at how far nationalist contexts informed each gendered emotional community at a time when British imperial networks were under extreme duress. The book presents a unique history of gender and shame which demonstrates just how versatile and ever-present this social emotion was in the feminist politics of the British Empire in the early decades of the twentieth century. It employs a fascinating new thematic lens to histories of anti-feminist/feminist entanglements by tracing national and transnational uses of emotions by women to police their own political communities. It also challenges the common notion that shame had little place in a modernizing world by revealing how far groups of patriotic womanhood, globally, deployed shame to combat the effects of feminist activism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crozier-De Rosa, Sharon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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