Burdens of history
Subtitle: British feminists, Indian women, and imperial culture, 1865-1915
By: Antoinette Burton.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Feminism -- Great Britain -- History.; Feminists -- Great Britain -- Attitudes -- History.; Women -- India -- History.; Imperialism -- History.
Description: In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperial ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-294) and index.