Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash
Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash examines how women opposed to the feminist campaign for the vote in early twentieth-century Britain, Ireland, and Australia used shame as a political tool. It demonstrates just how proficient women were in employing a diverse vocabulary of emotions – drawing on concepts like embarrassment, humiliation, honour, courage, and chivalry – in the attempt to achieve their political goals. It looks at how far nationalist contexts informed each gendered emotional community at a time when British imperial networks were under extreme duress. The book presents a unique history of gender and shame which demonstrates just how versatile and ever-present this social emotion was in the feminist politics of the British Empire in the early decades of the twentieth century. It employs a fascinating new thematic lens to histories of anti-feminist/feminist entanglements by tracing national and transnational uses of emotions by women to police their own political communities. It also challenges the common notion that shame had little place in a modernizing world by revealing how far groups of patriotic womanhood, globally, deployed shame to combat the effects of feminist activism.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2019-12-10
- Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
- Vikt453 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieRoutledge Research in Gender and History
- Antal sidor260
- FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
- ISBN9780367867393