Fletcher / Levine / Mayhall Women's Suffrage in the British Empire

Citizenship, Nation and Race
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-135-63992-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 274 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fletcher, Ian Christopher

Levine, Philippa

Mayhall, Laura E. Nym

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

I. Re-thinking suffrage discourse

The South African War and the origins of suffrage militancy in Britain, 1899-1902 Laura E. Nym Mayhall

'States of Injury': Josephine Butler on slavery, citizenship, and the Boer War Antoinette Burton

'Racial Poison': Drink, male vice, and degeneration in first-wave feminism Mariana Valverde

Modernity and mother-heartedness: Spirituality and religious meaning in Australian women's suffrage and citizenship movements, 1890s-1920s Judith Smart

White maternity and black infancy: the rhetoric of race in the South African women's suffrage movement, 1895-1926 Pamela Scully

Local feminisms in an imperial state

An experiment in the social laboratory? Suffrage, national identity, and mythologies of race in New Zealand in the 1890s Raewyn Dalziel

'Women of the nations, unite!': Transnational suffragism in the United Kingdom, 1912-1914 Ian Christopher Fletcher

'Pioneering representatives of the Hebrew people': International campaigns of the Palestinian Jewish Women's Equal Rights Association, 1918-1948 Ruth Abrams

Nation, tradition, and rights: the indigenous feminism of the Palestinian Women's Movement, 1929-1948 Ellen Fleischmann

III. Tracking the transnational

British suffragists and Iranian women, 1906-1911 Mansour Bonakdarien

'Making fresh Britains across the seas': Imperial authority and anti-feminism in Rhodesia Donal Lowry

Competing transnational representations of the 1930s Indian franchise question Catherine Candy

Australian women's metropolitan activism: From suffrage, to imperial vanguard, to commonwealth feminism Angela Woolacott

Suffragism and internationalism: the enfranchisement of British and Indian women under an imperial state Mrinalina Sinha