TY - BOOK
T1 - Burdens of History
T2 - British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915
AU - Burton, Antoinette M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This is a revised version of the paper prepared for the project "The Interaction of EU and NATO. Adapting Transatlantic Cooperation to the New Security Challenges in Europe" carried out by the IAI, Rome, and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen, and sponsored by the Volkswagen Stiftung. This paper was presented at the First Project Conference held in Rome, 21/22 January 1994. See E. Antola, The End of Pragmatism: Political Foundations of the Rnnish Integration Policy under Stress". Yearbook of Rnnish Foreign Policy 1991, (Helsinki: Finnish Institute of International Affairs, 1992), pp. 17-21.
PY - 1994/11
Y1 - 1994/11
N2 - In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority. According to Burton, Victorian and Edwardian feminists such as Josephine Butler, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and Mary Carpenter believed that the native women of colonial India constituted a special 'white woman's burden.' Although there were a number of prominent Indian women in Britain as well as in India working toward some of the same goals of equality, British feminists relied on images of an enslaved and primitive 'Oriental womanhood' in need of liberation at the hands of their emancipated British 'sisters.' Burton argues that this unquestioning acceptance of Britain's imperial status and of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority created a set of imperial feminist ideologies, the legacy of which must be recognized and understood by contemporary feminists.
AB - In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority. According to Burton, Victorian and Edwardian feminists such as Josephine Butler, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and Mary Carpenter believed that the native women of colonial India constituted a special 'white woman's burden.' Although there were a number of prominent Indian women in Britain as well as in India working toward some of the same goals of equality, British feminists relied on images of an enslaved and primitive 'Oriental womanhood' in need of liberation at the hands of their emancipated British 'sisters.' Burton argues that this unquestioning acceptance of Britain's imperial status and of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority created a set of imperial feminist ideologies, the legacy of which must be recognized and understood by contemporary feminists.
UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42328786
M3 - Book
SN - 9780807860656
BT - Burdens of History
PB - University of North Carolina Press
CY - Chapel Hill
ER -