Women of Empire
Title | Women of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Verity McInnis |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 9780806157740 |
Women of Empire adds a previously unexplored dimension to our understanding of the connections between gender and imperialism in the nineteenth century. McInnis examines the intersections of class, race, and gender to reveal social spaces where female identity and power were both contested and constructed.
Feminism's Empire
Title | Feminism's Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn J. Eichner |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 319 |
Release | 2022-06-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501763822 |
Feminism's Empire investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing "pro-imperialist" and "anti-imperialist" as binary positions. By intellectually and spatially tracing the era's first French feminists' engagement with empire, Carolyn J. Eichner explores how feminists opposed—yet employed—approaches to empire in writing, speaking, and publishing. In differing ways, they ultimately tied forms of imperialism to gender liberation. Among the era's first anti-imperialists, French feminists were enmeshed in the hierarchies and epistemologies of empire. They likened their gender-based marginalization to imperialist oppressions. Imperialism and colonialism's gendered and sexualized racial hierarchies established categories of inclusion and exclusion that rested in both universalism and ideas of "nature" that presented colonized people with theoretical, yet impossible, paths to integration. Feminists faced similar barriers to full incorporation due to the gendered contradictions inherent in universalism. The system presumed citizenship to be male and thus positioned women as outsiders. Feminism's Empire connects this critical struggle to hierarchical power shifts in racial and national status that created uneasy linkages between French feminists and imperial authorities.
German Women for Empire, 1884-1945
Title | German Women for Empire, 1884-1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Lora Wildenthal |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 2001-11-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822328193 |
DIVAnalyses gender, sexuality, feminism, and class in the racial politics of formal German colonialism and postcolonial revanchism./div
Woman's World/Woman's Empire
Title | Woman's World/Woman's Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Tyrrell |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2014-03-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469620804 |
Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world. Based in the United States, the WCTU rapidly became an international organization, with affiliates in forty-two countries. Ian Tyrrell tells the extraordinary story of how a handful of women sought to change the mores of the world -- not only by abolishing alcohol but also by promoting peace and attacking prostitution, poverty, and male control of democratic political structures. In describing the work of Mary Leavitt, Jessie Ackermann, and other temperance crusaders on the international scene, Tyrrell identifies the tensions generated by conflict between the WCTU's universalist agenda and its own version of an ideologically and religiously based form of cultural imperialism. The union embraced an international and occasionally ecumenical vision that included a critique of Western materialism and imperialism. But, at the same time, its mission inevitably promoted Anglo-American cultural practices and Protestant evangelical beliefs deemed morally superior by the WCTU. Tyrrell also considers, from a comparative perspective, the peculiar links between feminism, social reform, and evangelical religion in Anglo-American culture that made it so difficult for the WCTU to export its vision of a woman-centered mission to other cultures. Even in other Western states, forging links between feminism and religiously based temperance reform was made virtually impossible by religious, class, and cultural barriers. Thus, the WCTU ultimately failed in its efforts to achieve a sober and pure world, although its members significantly shaped the values of those countries in which it excercised strong influence. As and urgently needed history of the first largescale worldwide women's organization and non-denominational evangelical institution, Woman's World / Woman's Empire will be a valuable resource to scholars in the fields of women's studies, religion, history, and alcohol and temperance studies.
Unrivalled Influence
Title | Unrivalled Influence PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Herrin |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 2013-03-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691153213 |
Explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, this title focuses on the importance of marriage in imperial statecraft, the tense coexistence of empresses in the imperial court, and the critical relationships of mothers and daughters.
The New Woman and the Empire
Title | The New Woman and the Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Iveta Jusová |
Publisher | Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | 229 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Colonies in literature |
ISBN | 0814210058 |
Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire
Title | Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Anne F. Broadbridge |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2018-07-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108636624 |
How did women contribute to the rise of the Mongol Empire while Mongol men were conquering Eurasia? This book positions women in their rightful place in the otherwise well-known story of Chinggis Khan (commonly known as Genghis Khan) and his conquests and empire. Examining the best known women of Mongol society, such as Chinggis Khan's mother, Hö'elün, and senior wife, Börte, as well as those who were less famous but equally influential, including his daughters and his conquered wives, we see the systematic and essential participation of women in empire, politics and war. Anne F. Broadbridge also proposes a new vision of Chinggis Khan's well-known atomized army by situating his daughters and their husbands at the heart of his army reforms, looks at women's key roles in Mongol politics and succession, and charts the ways the descendants of Chinggis Khan's daughters dominated the Khanates that emerged after the breakup of the Empire in the 1260s.