Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980

Law, K. (2016) Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980. Other. Routledge, New York.

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Abstract

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.

Publication Type: Monographs (Other)
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General)
D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D839 Post-war History, 1945 on
D History General and Old World > DT Africa
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Women > HQ1101 Women. Feminism
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Divisions: Academic Areas > Institute of Arts and Humanities > History
Depositing User: Kate Law
Date Deposited: 12 Jan 2017 14:07
Last Modified: 12 Jan 2017 14:07
URI: https://eprints.chi.ac.uk/id/eprint/2290

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