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Burdens of history : British feminists, Indian women, and imperial culture, 1865-1915

Author: Antoinette M Burton
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1994.
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In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperial ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-
Burdens of history.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1994
(OCoLC)654292602
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Antoinette M Burton
ISBN: 0807821616 9780807821619 0807844713 9780807844717
OCLC Number: 29911058
Description: xi, 301 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. The Politics of Recovery: Historicizing Imperial Feminism, 1865-1915 --
2. Woman in the Nation: Feminism, Race, and Empire in the "National" Culture --
3. Female Emancipation and the Other Woman --
4. Reading Indian Women: Feminist Periodicals and Imperial Identity --
5. The White Woman's Burden: Josephine Butler and the Indian Campaign, 1886-1915 --
6. A Girdle round the Earth: British Imperial Suffrage and the Ideology of Global Sisterhood --
7. Representation, Empire, and Feminist History.
Responsibility: Antoinette Burton.

Abstract:

In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperial ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority.

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