Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915

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Univ 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
Representation Empire and Feminist History
207
Notes
213
Bibliography
271
Index
295
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Antoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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