Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920 Contributor(s): Crozier-de Rosa, Sharon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415635861 ISBN-13: 9780415635868 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Gender Studies |
Dewey: 305.42 |
LCCN: 2017045020 |
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.17 lbs) 260 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |