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Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980

LAW, KATE

Authors

KATE LAW Kate.Law@nottingham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor



Abstract

White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire. They tend to be remembered as malicious harridans personifying the worst excesses of colonialism, as vacuous fusspots, whose lives were punctuated by a series of frivolous pastimes, or as casualties of patriarchy, constrained by male actions and gendered ideologies. This book, which places itself amongst other "new imperial histories", argues that the reality of the situation, is of course, much more intricate and complex. Focusing on post-war colonial Rhodesia, Gendering the Settler State provides a fine-grained analysis of the role(s) of white women in the colonial enterprise, arguing that they held ambiguous and inconsistent views on a variety of issues including liberalism, gender, race and colonialism.

Citation

LAW, K. (2015). Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980. New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Book Type Authored Book
Online Publication Date Nov 23, 2015
Publication Date Nov 23, 2015
Deposit Date Sep 28, 2020
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Series Title Routledge Studies in Gender and History
ISBN 9781138916098
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2643774
Publisher URL https://www.routledge.com/Gendering-the-Settler-State-White-Women-Race-Liberalism-and-Empire-in/Law/p/book/9781138916098