Female Imperialism And National Identity

Author : Katie Pickles
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0719063906

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Female Imperialism and National Identity by Katie Pickles Pdf

Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organisation, formed in 1900, and still in existence, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It throws new light on women's involvement in imperialism; on the history of 'conservative' women's organisations; on women's interventions in debates concerning citizenship and national identity; and on the history of women in white settler societies. After placing the IODE (Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire) in the context of recent scholarly work in Canadian, gender, imperial history and post-colonial theory, the book follows the IODE's history through the twentieth century. Tracing the organisation into the postcolonial era, where previous imperial ideas are outmoded, it considers the transformation from patriotism to charity, and the turn to colonisation at home in the Canadian North.

Author : Wendy Webster
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 1857283503

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Imagining Home by Wendy Webster Pdf

Author : Wendy Webster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780203976166

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Imagining Home by Wendy Webster Pdf

Imagining Home offers a unique examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. In exploring the relationship between gender, 'race' and national identity, it higlights the continuing importance of empire in imaginings of the nation during a period of decolonization. Analyzing the significance of colonialism and racism in shaping ideas of motherhood, employment and domestictiy, it traces the process by which Englishness was increasingly associated with domestic order, and the home and family constructed as white. Drawing extensively on oral history and life-writing, Imagining Home examines the multiple meanings of home to women in narratives of beloning and unbelonging. Its focus on the complex interrelationships of white and black women's lives and identities offers a new perspective on this period.

Author : Kathleen Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521340721

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The Sense of the People by Kathleen Wilson Pdf

This book, first published in 1995, demonstrates the central role of 'people', the empire, and the citizen in eighteenth-century English popular politics. It shows how the wide-ranging political culture of English towns attuned ordinary men and women to the issues of state power and thus enabled them to stake their own claims in national and imperial affairs.

Author : Himani Bannerji
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004441620

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The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender by Himani Bannerji Pdf

The Ideological Condition is a feminist critique of ideology as a barrier to self and social transformation. Himani Bannerji explores the problematic of praxis by connecting forms of consciousness and politics. We see how people make history in spite of hegemony.

Author : Raka Shome
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252096686

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Diana and Beyond by Raka Shome Pdf

The death of Princess Diana unleashed an international outpouring of grief, love, and press attention virtually unprecedented in history. Yet the exhaustive effort to link an upper class white British woman with "the people" raises questions. What narrative of white femininity transformed Diana into a simultaneous signifier of a national and global popular? What ideologies did the narrative tap into to transform her into an idealized woman of the millennium? Why would a similar idealization not have appeared around a non-white, non-Western, or immigrant woman? Raka Shome investigates the factors that led to this defining cultural/political moment and unravels just what the Diana phenomenon represented for comprehending the relation between white femininity and the nation in postcolonial Britain and its connection to other white female celebrity figures in the millennium. Digging into the media and cultural artifacts that circulated in the wake of Diana's death, Shome investigates a range of theoretical issues surrounding motherhood and the production of national masculinities, global humanitarianism, transnational masculinities, the intersection of fashion and white femininity, and spirituality and national modernity. Her analysis explores how images of white femininity in popular culture intersect with issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, and transnationality in the performance of Anglo national modernities. Moving from ideas on the positioning of privileged white women in global neoliberalism to the emergence of new formations of white femininity in the millennium , Diana and Beyond fearlessly explains the late princess's never-ending renaissance and ongoing cultural relevance.

Author : Annamaria Lamarra,Eleonora Federici
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039114131

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Nations, Traditions and Cross-cultural Identities by Annamaria Lamarra,Eleonora Federici Pdf

The notion of citizenship is part of a national collective memory and a memory of individuals belonging to a specific geographical, historical and cultural context. The volume seeks to investigate the importance of women's relationship with citizenship and nationality from a diachronic perspective analysing different forms of writing in various European contexts. Many themes intersect in the different essays that comprise the volume, including the construction of female identity through religious ideology, the importance of translation and cultural studies as a source of feminine knowledge, and the relationship between public life and private domain within the multiculturalism of Europe. The intersection between national identity, women's writings and cultural difference surfaces in many essays and demonstrates how the notion of a necessary translation between cultures has been central for women authors since the seventeenth century.

Author : Rosie Dias,Kate Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501332173

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British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940 by Rosie Dias,Kate Smith Pdf

Correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, collecting and house interiors allowed British women scope to express their responses to imperial sites and experiences in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Taking these productions as its archive, British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1775-1930 includes a collection of essays from different disciplines that consider the role of British women's cultural practices and productions in conceptualising empire. While such productions have started to receive greater scholarly attention, this volume uses a more self-conscious lens of gender to question whether female cultural work demonstrates that colonial women engaged with the spaces and places of empire in distinctive ways. By working across disciplines, centuries and different colonial geographies, the volume makes an exciting and important contribution to the field by demonstrating the diverse ways in which European women shaped constructions of empire in the modern period.

Author : Dana Arnold
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0719067693

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Cultural Identities and the Aesthetics of Britishness by Dana Arnold Pdf

This book examines British imperial, colonial and postcolonial national identities within their political and social contexts. By considering the export, adoption and creation of such cultural identities, these essays show how nationhood and nationalism are self-consciously defined tools designed to focus and inspire loyalty. The contributors present these ideas with particular reference to English cultural identity and its interaction with the "Empire". They examine the national, imperial and colonial aesthetic--how architecture, landscape, painting, sculpture and literature were used, appropriated and re-appropriated in the furtherance of social and political agendas, and how this impacted on the making of "Britishness" in all its complexities. It is demonstrated that not only did the dominant aesthetic culture reinforce the dominant political and social ideology, it also re-presented and re-constructed the notion of British national identity.

Author : Julia Bush
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191530258

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Women Against the Vote by Julia Bush Pdf

British women who resisted their own enfranchisement were ridiculed by the suffragists and have since been neglected by historians. Yet these women, together with the millions whose indifference reinforced the opposition case, claimed to form a majority of the female public on the eve of the First World War. By 1914 the organised 'antis' rivalled the suffragists in numbers, though not in terms of publicity-seeking activism. The National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage was dominated by the self-consciously masculine leadership of Lord Cromer and Lord Curzon, but also heavily dependent upon an impressive cadre of women leaders and a mostly female membership. Women Against the Vote looks at three overlapping groups of women: maternal reformers, women writers and imperialist ladies. These women are then followed into action as campaigners in their own right, as well as supporters of anti-suffrage men. Collaboration between the sexes was not always straightforward, even within a movement dedicated to separate and complementary gender roles. As the anti-suffrage women pursued their own varied social and political agendas, they demonstrated their affinity with the mainstream social conservatism of the British women's movement. The rediscovered history of female anti-suffragism provides new perspectives on the campaigns both for and against the vote. It also makes an important contribution to the wider history of women's social and political activism in late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Britain.

Author : Myra Rutherdale,Katie Pickles
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774840262

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Contact Zones by Myra Rutherdale,Katie Pickles Pdf

As both colonizer and colonized (sometimes even simultaneously), women were uniquely positioned at the axis of the colonial encounter � the so-called "contact zone" � between Aboriginals and newcomers. Aboriginal women shaped identities for themselves in both worlds. By recognizing the necessity to "perform," they enchanted and educated white audiences across Canada. On the other side of the coin, newcomers imposed increasing regulation on Aboriginal women's bodies. Contact Zones provides insight into the ubiquity and persistence of colonial discourse. What bodies belonged inside the nation, who were outsiders, and who transgressed the rules � these are the questions at the heart of this provocative book.

Author : Franca Iacovetta
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926662688

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Gatekeepers by Franca Iacovetta Pdf

An in-depth study of European immigrants to Canada during the Cold War, Gatekeepers explores the interactions among these immigrants and the “gatekeepers”–mostly middle-class individuals and institutions whose definitions of citizenship significantly shaped the immigrant experience. Iacovetta’s deft discussion examines how dominant bourgeois gender and Cold War ideologies of the day shaped attitudes towards new Canadians. She shows how the newcomers themselves were significant actors who influenced Canadian culture and society, even as their own behaviour was being modified. Generously illustrated, Gatekeepers explores a side of Cold War history that has been left largely untapped. It offers a long overdue Canadian perspective on one of the defining eras of the last century.

Author : Lynn Staeheli,Eleonore Kofman,Linda Peake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135952501

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Mapping Women, Making Politics by Lynn Staeheli,Eleonore Kofman,Linda Peake Pdf

Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in which gender influences political processes and the politics of space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and conceptual challenges to traditional political geography and than applies these perspectives to a range of settings and topics including nationalism, migration, development, international relations, elections, social movements, governance and the environment in the Global North and South.

Author : Renée Dickinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136603525

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Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel by Renée Dickinson Pdf

This study considers the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period--Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore--by examining four crucial incarnations of female embodiment and subjectivity: female bodies, geographical imagery, national ideology and textual experimentation. Dickinson proposes that the ways Mrs. Dalloway, and The Waves by Virginia Woolf and Spleen and Fugue by Olive Moore reflect, expose and criticize physical, geographical and national bodies in the narrative and form of their texts reveal the authors’ attempts to try on new forms and experiment with new possibilities of female embodiment and subjectivity.

Author : Nancy Janovicek,Carmen Nielson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442629738

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Reading Canadian Women’s and Gender History by Nancy Janovicek,Carmen Nielson Pdf

Inspired by the question of "what’s next?" in the field of Canadian women’s and gender history, this broadly historiographical volume represents a conversation among established and emerging scholars who share a commitment to understanding the past from intersectional feminist perspectives. It includes original essays on Quebecois, Indigenous, Black, and immigrant women’s histories and tackles such diverse topics as colonialism, religion, labour, warfare, sexuality, and reproductive labour and justice. Intended as a regenerative retrospective of a critically important field, this collection both engages analytically with the current state of women’s and gender historiography in Canada and draws on its rich past to generate new knowledge and areas for inquiry.