Gender and empire [[electronic resource] /] / Philippa Levine, editor
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| Titolo: |
Gender and empire [[electronic resource] /] / Philippa Levine, editor
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.3 |
| 305.3/09171/241 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Women - Great Britain - Colonies - History |
| Sex role - Great Britain - Colonies - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Colonies History |
| Great Britain Colonies Administration | |
| Altri autori: |
LevinePhilippa
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: Why Gender and Empire?; 2. Empire, Gender, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century; 3. Of Gender and Empire: Reflections on the Nineteenth Century; 4. Gender and Empire: The Twentieth Century; 5. Medicine, Gender, and Empire; 6. Sexuality, Gender, and Empire; 7. Gender and Migration; 8. Nations in an Imperial Crucible; 9. Legacies of Departure: Decolonization, Nation-making, and Gender; 10. Empire and Violence, 1900-1939; 11. Childhood and Race: Growing Up in the Empire; 12. Faith, Missionary Life, and the Family |
| 13. Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial HistoriesIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Highlighting gender as a significant and always present factor in the British Empire makes for a very different reading of that singular and fascinating history. In this volume, major scholars ask fresh questions about traditional issues, as well as exploring questions seldom hitherto asked. - ;Focusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of empire, this is an original volume full of fascinating insights about the conduct of men as well as women. Bringing together disparate fields - politics, medicine, sexuality, childhood, religion, migration, and many more topics - this colle |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Gender and empire |
| ISBN: | 0-19-924951-2 |
| 1-4356-1814-9 | |
| 9786611770082 | |
| 0-19-153039-5 | |
| 1-281-77008-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820709403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.