Empire''s Daughters - Girlhood, Whiteness, and the Colonial Project

This book provides a study of the Girls' Friendly Society to examine how the construction of girlhood was intricately tied to constructions of whiteness and ideas of empire. It uses correspondences, newsletters, scrapbooks, and photographs to reveal the often-overlooked role of girls in the British empire.

About the author

Elizabeth Dillenburg is an Assistant Professor of History at The Ohio State University at Newark

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Dillenburg
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9781526163516
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6351-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Gender studies: women, Age groups: children, Gender studies: women and girls, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General