Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915Univ of North Carolina Press, 1994 - 301 pages 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 feminis |
Contents
The Politics of Recovery Historicizing Imperial Feminism 18651915 | 1 |
Woman in the Nation Feminism Raceand Empire in the National Culture | 33 |
Female Emancipation and the Other Woman | 63 |
Reading Indian Women Feminist Periodicals and Imperial Identity | 97 |
The White Womans Burden Josephine Butler and the Indian Campaign 18861915 | 127 |
A Girdle round the Earth British Imperial Suffrage and the Ideology of Global Sisterhood | 171 |
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