Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920

di Sharon Crozier-De Rosa (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019

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.

• Autore: Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Research in Gender and History
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 260 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 453 gr.
• EAN: 9780367867393

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