From colony to nation: women activists and the gendering of politics in Belize, 1912-1982
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1. Verfasser: Macpherson, Anne S. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press c2007
Schriftenreihe:Engendering Latin America (Unnumbered)
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-367) and index
Introduction: "Never a coward woman" -- The making of a riot: women, wages, and war on the home front, 1912-1919 -- A fragile peace: colonial reform, Garveyism, and the Black Cross nurses, 1920-1930 -- Hurricane from below: popular protest, the Labourers and Unemployed Association, and the Women's League, 1931-1941 -- Modernizing colonialism: development, discipline, and domestication, 1935-1954 -- A new paterfamilias: the creation and control of popular nationalism, 1949-1961 -- Negotiating nationalist patriarchy: party politics, radical masculinity, and the birth of Belizean feminism, 1961-1982 -- Conclusion: gender and history in the making of modern Belize
The first book on women's political history in Belize, From Colony to Nation demonstrates that women were creators of and activists within the two principal political currents of twentieth-century Belize: colonial-middle class reform and popular labor-nationalism. As such, their alliances and struggles with colonial administrators, male reformers, and nationalists and with one another were central to the emergence of this improbable nation-state
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ISBN:0803206267
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9780803206267
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