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

Informationen zum Autor Antoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Klappentext Explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, Antoinette Burton reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority. Zusammenfassung Explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality! Antoinette Burton reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority.

Product details

• Authors: Antoinette Burton, Antoinette M. Burton
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1994
• EAN: 9780807844717
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-4471-7
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous