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Book Synopsis
Examines women's situation within the workings of gender in the historical construction of nations, empires, and colonies. This volume covers the period of the grand era of European and later American imperialism, from the eighteenth century until after the Second World War.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Ruth Roach Pierson

Chapter One
Maori Agriculturalists and Aboriginal Hunter-Gatherers: Women and Colonial Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Aotearoa/New Zealand and Southeastern Australia
Patricia Grimshaw

Chapter Two
Enfranchising Women of Color: Woman Suffragists as Agents of Imperialism
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Chapter Three
Gendered Colonialism: The "Woman Question" in Settler Society
Dolores E. Janiewski

Chapter Four
Actions Louder than Words: The Historical Task of Defining Feminist Consciousness in Colonial West Africa
Cheryl Johnson-Odim

Chapter Five
Frontier Feminism and the Marauding White Man: Australia, 1890s to 1940s
Marilyn Lake

Chapter Six
The Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution: Constructions of Feminism and Nationalism
Gabriela Cano

Chapter Seven
The Politics of Irish Identity and the Interconnections between Feminism, Nationhood and Colonialism
Breda Gray and Louise Ryan

Chapter Eight
Cohabiting and Conflicting Identities: Women and Nationalisms in Twentieth-Century Iran
Joanna de Groot

Chapter Nine
Orthodoxy, Cultural Nationalism and Hindutva Violence: An Overview of the Gender Ideology of the Hindu Right Tanika Sarkar

Chapter Ten
Surviving Absence: Jewishness and Femininity in Liberation France, 1944-45
Karen Adler

Chapter Eleven
Men, Women and the Community Borders: German-Nationalist and National Socialist Discourses on Gender, "Race," and National Identity in Austria, 1918-1938
Johanna Gehmacher

Chapter Twelve
Images of Sara Bartman: Sexuality, Race and Gender in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
Yvette Abrahams

Chapter Thirteen
Sexual and Racial Discrimination: An Historical Inquiry into the Japanese Military's "Comfort" Women System of Enforced Prostitution
Sayoko Yoneda

Chapter Fourteen
Vacations in the "Contact Zone": Race, Gender and the Traveller at Niagara Falls
Karen Dubinsky

Chapter Fifteen
Uprooted Women: Partition of Punjab, 1947
Aparna Basu

Chapter Sixteen
Politics and the Writing of History
Himani Bannerji

Gabriela Cano

Chapter Seven
The Politics of Irish Identity and the Interconnections between Feminism, Nationhood and Colonialism
Breda Gray and Louise Ryan

Chapter Eight
Cohabiting and Conflicting Identities: Women and Nationalisms in Twentieth-Century Iran
Joanna de Groot


Chapter Nine
Orthodoxy, Cultural Nationalism and Hindutva Violence: An Overview of the Gender Ideology of the Hindu Right
Tanika Sarkar

Chapter Ten
Surviving Absence: Jewishness and Femininity in Liberation France, 1944-45
Karen Adler

Chapter Eleven
Men, Women and the Community Borders: German-Nationalist and National Socialist Discourses on Gender, "Race," and National Identity in Austria, 1918-1938
Johanna Gehmacher

Chapter Twelve
Images of Sara Bartman: Sexuality, Race and Gender in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
Yvette Abrahams

Chapter Thirteen
Sexual and Racial Discrimination: An Historical Inquiry into the Japanese Military's "Comfort" Women System of Enforced Prostitution
Sayoko Yoneda

Chapter Fourteen
Vacations in the "Contact Zone": Race, Gender and the Traveller at Niagara Falls
Karen Dubinsky

Chapter Fifteen
Uprooted Women: Partition of Punjab, 1947
Aparna Basu

Chapter Sixteen
Politics and the Writing of History
Himani Bannerji

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/11/1998
      ISBN13: 9780253211910, 978-0253211910
      ISBN10: 0253211913

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines women's situation within the workings of gender in the historical construction of nations, empires, and colonies. This volume covers the period of the grand era of European and later American imperialism, from the eighteenth century until after the Second World War.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Ruth Roach Pierson

      Chapter One
      Maori Agriculturalists and Aboriginal Hunter-Gatherers: Women and Colonial Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Aotearoa/New Zealand and Southeastern Australia
      Patricia Grimshaw

      Chapter Two
      Enfranchising Women of Color: Woman Suffragists as Agents of Imperialism
      Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

      Chapter Three
      Gendered Colonialism: The "Woman Question" in Settler Society
      Dolores E. Janiewski

      Chapter Four
      Actions Louder than Words: The Historical Task of Defining Feminist Consciousness in Colonial West Africa
      Cheryl Johnson-Odim

      Chapter Five
      Frontier Feminism and the Marauding White Man: Australia, 1890s to 1940s
      Marilyn Lake

      Chapter Six
      The Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution: Constructions of Feminism and Nationalism
      Gabriela Cano

      Chapter Seven
      The Politics of Irish Identity and the Interconnections between Feminism, Nationhood and Colonialism
      Breda Gray and Louise Ryan

      Chapter Eight
      Cohabiting and Conflicting Identities: Women and Nationalisms in Twentieth-Century Iran
      Joanna de Groot

      Chapter Nine
      Orthodoxy, Cultural Nationalism and Hindutva Violence: An Overview of the Gender Ideology of the Hindu Right Tanika Sarkar

      Chapter Ten
      Surviving Absence: Jewishness and Femininity in Liberation France, 1944-45
      Karen Adler

      Chapter Eleven
      Men, Women and the Community Borders: German-Nationalist and National Socialist Discourses on Gender, "Race," and National Identity in Austria, 1918-1938
      Johanna Gehmacher

      Chapter Twelve
      Images of Sara Bartman: Sexuality, Race and Gender in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
      Yvette Abrahams

      Chapter Thirteen
      Sexual and Racial Discrimination: An Historical Inquiry into the Japanese Military's "Comfort" Women System of Enforced Prostitution
      Sayoko Yoneda

      Chapter Fourteen
      Vacations in the "Contact Zone": Race, Gender and the Traveller at Niagara Falls
      Karen Dubinsky

      Chapter Fifteen
      Uprooted Women: Partition of Punjab, 1947
      Aparna Basu

      Chapter Sixteen
      Politics and the Writing of History
      Himani Bannerji

      Gabriela Cano

      Chapter Seven
      The Politics of Irish Identity and the Interconnections between Feminism, Nationhood and Colonialism
      Breda Gray and Louise Ryan

      Chapter Eight
      Cohabiting and Conflicting Identities: Women and Nationalisms in Twentieth-Century Iran
      Joanna de Groot


      Chapter Nine
      Orthodoxy, Cultural Nationalism and Hindutva Violence: An Overview of the Gender Ideology of the Hindu Right
      Tanika Sarkar

      Chapter Ten
      Surviving Absence: Jewishness and Femininity in Liberation France, 1944-45
      Karen Adler

      Chapter Eleven
      Men, Women and the Community Borders: German-Nationalist and National Socialist Discourses on Gender, "Race," and National Identity in Austria, 1918-1938
      Johanna Gehmacher

      Chapter Twelve
      Images of Sara Bartman: Sexuality, Race and Gender in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
      Yvette Abrahams

      Chapter Thirteen
      Sexual and Racial Discrimination: An Historical Inquiry into the Japanese Military's "Comfort" Women System of Enforced Prostitution
      Sayoko Yoneda

      Chapter Fourteen
      Vacations in the "Contact Zone": Race, Gender and the Traveller at Niagara Falls
      Karen Dubinsky

      Chapter Fifteen
      Uprooted Women: Partition of Punjab, 1947
      Aparna Basu

      Chapter Sixteen
      Politics and the Writing of History
      Himani Bannerji

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