Feminism and empire
Subtitle: women activists in Imperial Britain, 1790-1865
By: Clare Midgley.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415250146; 9780415250153
Subjects: Women -- Great Britain -- Political activity -- History -- 18th century; Women -- Great Britain -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century; Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The "woman question" in Imperial Britain; title: Sweetness and power : the domestic woman and anti-slavery politics; title: White women saving brown women? The campaign against sati; title: Can women be missionaries? Providential imperialism and female agency; title: Feminism, colonial emigration and the new model Englishwoman.