Opis: Gendering the Settler State - Kate Law

White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire. They tend to be remembered as malicious harridans personifying the worst excesses of colonialism, as vacuous fusspots, whose lives were punctuated by a series of frivolous pastimes, or as casualties of patriarchy, constrained by male actions and gendered ideologies. This book, which places itself amongst other "new imperial histories", argues that the reality of the situation, is of course, much more intricate and complex. Focusing on post-war colonial Rhodesia, Gendering the Settler State provides a fine-grained analysis of the role(s) of white women in the colonial enterprise, arguing that they held ambiguous and inconsistent views on a variety of issues including liberalism, gender, race and colonialism. "Law takes us inside the world of white Rhodesian women, and how they navigated the complex politics of one of the oddest moments in the history of decolonisation... [this book]... offers: a new way to think through Rhodesia's post-war history, and thus to consider how decolonisation studies might incorporate new interpretations located in the politics of race and gender... It is Law's achievement to have captured the complex and sometimes contradictory nuances of this extraordinary moment. The connecting tissue linking gender and decolonisation has found its voice in this pioneering and important study." - Professor Philippa Levine, Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities, University of TexasIntroduction: Writing White Women, c. 1950-1980 1. Making Settlers Out of Pioneers: White Women and the Development of Rhodesia, 1890-1940 2. The Politics of Pots and Pans: Miriam Staunton, Gender Norms and the Federation of African Women's Clubs, 1950-1970 3. "Think[ing] Black": Eileen Haddon, Multi-Racialism and Majority Rule, 1953-1965 4. Struggles Within the Struggle: Diana Mitchell, Opposition Politics, Liberalism, and Women's Liberation, 1965-1979 5. "Imperialists Stuck in a Time Warp"?: White Women, Memory and the History of Rhodesia. Conclusion: White Women in Colonial Rhodesia

Szczegóły: Gendering the Settler State - Kate Law

Tytuł: Gendering the Settler State
Autor: Kate Law
Producent: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138916098
Rok produkcji: 2015
Ilość stron: 194
Oprawa: Twarda

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