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‘The right sort of woman’: female emigrators and emigration to the British Empire, 1890-1910
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The authors explored white British women's efforts to appropriate their share of the Empire through the propaganda of female emigration societies, and analyzed the views of the emigration on key issues related to female emigrations: prospects for work and for marriage; the possibilities of a freer lifestyle for women in the colonies; the class issues surrounding servants' emigration, and their assumed need for moral surveillance; the links (both biological and symbolic) between imperialism and motherhood.Abstract:
This article explores white British women's efforts to appropriate their share of the Empire through the propaganda of female emigration societies. Female emigration rejoiced in growing government recognition of their work, but sustained a style of female leadership and activism that deserves evaluation alongside other Victorian and Edwardian women's movements. The article analyses the views of the emigration on key issues related to female emigration: prospects for work and for marriage; the possibilities of a freer lifestyle for women in the colonies; the class issues surrounding servants’ emigration, and their assumed need for moral surveillance; the links (both biological and symbolic) between imperialism and motherhood. Debate surrounded these issues within the female emigration movement as well as outside it. As the female emigrators carved a space for women in the Empire, they confronted contradictions in their own lives and in gendered British society.read more
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Beyond surplus, beyond motherhood : British migrant women, 1914-1929
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Domesticating ‘the heart of the wild’: female personifications of the colonies, 1886-1940[1]
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The six lives of alexine tinne: gender shifts in the atlantic world, 1835-1915
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Interraciality in Early Twentieth Century Britain: Challenging Traditional Conceptualisations through Accounts of ‘Ordinariness’
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The white woman's burden: British feminists and the Indian woman, 1865–1915
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