Artikel
Feminising empire? : British women's activist networks in defending and challenging empire from 1918 to decolonisation
Verfasst von:
Bush, Barbara
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Wallingford:
2016
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499-519 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Bush, Barbara info |
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| Jahr: | 2016 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article addresses female activism spanning the Empire and creating interconnected networks linking the local and global dimensions of Britain's imperial mission in an era of increasing uncertainty. The transition from empire to commonwealth and, ultimately, independence was marked by anti-colonial challenges from within Britain and in the colonies and threats to empire from international developments post-1918. This era also witnessed a more proactive role for women as both defenders and critics of empire who had an influence on shaping a new discourse of welfare and development, purportedly a ‘feminisation’ of empire. Continuities existed between female activism pre- and post-1918 but also significant differences as the late imperial era witnessed more nuanced and diverse interventions into empire affairs than the ‘maternalist imperial feminism’ of the era before the First World War. | |
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