"Nation, Empire, Colony" examines women's situation within the workings of gender in the historical construction of nations, empires, and colonies. The contributors reveal the power relations of gender, class, race, and sexuality at the heart of the histories of imperialism, colonialism and nationalism that have shaped our modern world. The period covered in this volume is that of the grand era of European and later American imperialism, from the eighteenth century until after the Second World War. The international list of authors represent nations from Australia and Aotearoa / New Zealand to Japan, from India and Pakistan to Canada, from the Caribbean to Nigeria, from South Africa to Britain, from Ireland to France, from Mexico to Austria. Topics include the (mis)representations of Native women by European colonizers, the violent displacement of women through imperialisms and nationalisms, and the relations between and among feminism, nationalism, imperialism, and colonialism. A number of the contributors employ an examination of historical processes to explain present political policies and cultural politics affecting women and determining race and gender relations in the contemporary world.
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 OWoman QuestionO 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, ORace,O 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 MilitaryOs OComfortO Women System of Enforced Prostitution Sayoko Yoneda Chapter Fourteen Vacations in the OContact ZoneO: 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, ORace,O 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 MilitaryOs OComfortO Women System of Enforced Prostitution Sayoko Yoneda Chapter Fourteen Vacations in the OContact ZoneO: 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
Examines womenOs lives in the gendered structures of nations, empires, and colonies.
