Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash
Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920
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- English
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Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash
Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920
About This Book
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 â drawing on concepts like embarrassment, humiliation, honour, courage, and chivalry â 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Shaming Unwomanly Women
- 2 Reversing the Shame of British Colonisation
- 3 Embarrassing the Imperial Centre
- 4 Shaming British-Australia
- 5 War and the Dishonourable British Feminist
- 6 Shaming Manhood to Embody Courage
- 7 The Shame of the Violent Woman
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index