Law Gendering the Settler State

White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Colonial Rhodesia
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-42536-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and History

This book argues that white women often held ambiguous, inconsistent and complicated attitudes towards issues such as race, liberalism, gender and empire, marking a significant departure from the current scholarship on women and empire, which has tended to situate them in ossified roles. In doing so, Gendering the Settler State argues for the importance of a more nuanced and fine-grained analysis of the role of white women in the colonial enterprise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Law, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Gender Roles in Settler Society c.1890-1980 3. Politicising Pots and Pans: White Women, Gender and the Contested Nature of Domesticity, c.1950-1965 4. "Think[ing] Black": Eileen Haddon, Multi-Racialism and Majority Rule in Rhodesia, c.1950-1965 5. Struggles Within the Struggle: White Women, Opposition Politics, and Women’s Liberation in Rhodesia, c.1965-1978 6. "My History, My Heritage, My Country": Oral Articulations of White Female Identity, c. 1960-1980 7. Conclusions: Writing White Women

Über Autor(innen)

Kate Law is a Lecturer in Gender Studies in the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.