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Gendering the Settler State: White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980 - Routledge Research in Gender and History Law, Kate (University of the Free State, South Africa) 1st edition
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Gendering the Settler State: White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980 - Routledge Research in Gender and History
Law, Kate (University of the Free State, South Africa)
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.
194 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables, 1 black & white halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 23, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138916098 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 194 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 237 × 16 mm · 408 g |
| Language | English |
