Nation, Empire Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race [Hardcover]

Ruth Roach Pierson (Editor), Nupur Chaudhuri (Editor), Beth McAuley (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1998

"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.

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About the Author

Ruth Roach Pierson, Professor of Women's History and Feminist Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, is the author of "They're Still Women After All": The Second World War and Canadian Womanhood, Women and Peace: Theoretical, Historical, and Practical Perspectives, and co-editor of No Easy Road: Women in Canada 1920s to 1960s, and of Writing Women's History: International Perspectives.
Nupur Chaudhuri, who teaches at Kansas State University, is the co-editor of Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance, and co-editor of a special issue on "Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality: National and Global Perspectives" for the National Women's Studies Journal. She has written extensively on gender and imperialism and her articles have appeared in Journal of Women's History, Women's History Review, and Victorian Studies.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 314 pages
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr (November 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0253333989
• ISBN-13: 978-0253333988
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,852,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)