Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race

by Fletcher,Ian Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780415208055
• ISBN10: 041520805X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage from an international perspective. Leading international scholars explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of social and political struggle and examine the ideological and cultural implications of gendered constructions of 'race,' nation, and empire. The book includes comprehensive case studies of Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Palestine.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction	xiii
Laura E. Nym Mayhall
Philippa Levine
Ian Christopher Fletcher
PART I Re-thinking suffrage discourse	1	(84)
The South African War and the origins of suffrage militancy in Britain, 1899--1902	3	(15)
Laura E. Nym Mayhall
``States of injury'': Josephine Butler on slavery, citizenship, and the Boer war	18	(15)
Antoinette Burton
``Racial poison'': drink, male vice, and degeneration in first-wave feminism	33	(18)
Mariana Valverde
Modernity and mother-heartedness: spirituality and religious meaning in Australian women's suffrage and citizenship movements, 1890s--1920s	51	(17)
Judith Smart
White maternity and black infancy: the rhetoric of race in the South African women's suffrage movement, 1895--1930	68	(17)
Pamela Scully
PART II Local feminisms in an imperial state	85	(70)
An experiment in the social laboratory? Suffrage, national identity, and mythologies of race in New Zealand in the 1890s	87	(16)
Raewyn Dalziel
``Women of the Nations, Unite!'': transnational suffragism in the United Kingdom, 1912--1914	103	(18)
Ian Christopher Fletcher
``Pioneering representatives of the Hebrew people'': Campaigns of the Palestinian Jewish Women's Equal Rights Association, 1918--1948	121	(17)
Ruth Abrams
Nation, tradition and rights: the indigenous feminism of the Palestinian women's movement, 1929--1948	138	(17)
Ellen Fleischmann
PART III Tracking the transnational	155	(86)
British suffragists and Iranian women, 1906--1911	157	(18)
Mansour Bonakdarian
``Making fresh Britains across the seas'': imperial authority and anti-feminism in Rhodesia	175	(16)
Donal Lowry
Competing transnational representations of the 1930s Indian franchise question	191	(16)
Catherine Candy
Australian women's metropolitan activism: from suffrage, to imperial vanguard, to Commonwealth feminism	207	(17)
Angela Woollacott
Suffragism and internationalism: the enfranchisement of British and Indian women under an imperial state	224	(17)
Mrinalini Sinha
Index	241