Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash

Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Sharon Crozier-de Rosa

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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

  • Utgivningsdatum2017-12-01
  • Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
  • Vikt521 g
  • FormatInbunden
  • SpråkEngelska
  • SerieRoutledge Research in Gender and History
  • Antal sidor260
  • FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
  • ISBN9780415635868