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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813592903321

Autore

Crozier-De Rosa Sharon

Titolo

Shame and the anti-feminist backlash : Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920 / / by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-203-08603-1

1-136-20073-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages)

Collana

Routledge Research in Gender and History ; ; 29

Disciplina

305.420941

Soggetti

Anti-feminism - Great Britain - History

Anti-feminism - Australia - History

Patriotism - Great Britain - History

Patriotism - Australia - History

Women - Political activity - Great Britain - History

Women - Political activity - Australia - History

Women - Psychology

Women - Identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Shaming unwomanly women -- Reversing the shame of British colonisation -- Embarrassing the Imperial centre -- Shaming British-Australia -- War and the dishonourable British feminist -- Shaming manhood to embody courage -- The shame of the violent woman -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book places the concept of shame within a historical context. It examines how this emotion was used by popular writers (especially female writers) in the widespread backlash against feminism at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, in Britain, Ireland and Australia. Shame was considered to be an overwhelmingly appropriate weapon in the campaign against the aspirations and actions of the 'unwomanly' woman. Trouble arose, however, when it appeared that these unwomanly women were either resistant to or incapable of experiencing this highly gendered emotion.This study casts new light on just how intricately shame was linked with anxieties



about the future of civilisation, and therefore with feminism, imperialism, nationalism, in the popular mentality of those inhabiting regions of the British Empire. The book examines the far-reaching implications feminism had for nation and empire, and uncovers the extent to which shame and shaming was relied on as a tool for social control among female writers of anti-feminist persuasion."--Provided by publisher.