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Female Imperialism and National Identity : Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2003 [©2002.]

1 online resource (221 pages)

Englisch

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978-1-84779-073-6

978-0-7190-6390-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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LOC-SH: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire -- History ; Women -- Canada -- History

Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire ; History ; Women ; Canada ; History ; Electronic books

Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organization, formed in 1900, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It sheds light on women's involvement in imperialism, and on the history of 'conservative' women's organizations.

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Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- GENERAL EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Genealogy of an imperial and nationalistic Order -- 2 Female imperialism at the periphery: organizing principles, 1900-1919 -- 3 Women, race and assimilation: the canadianizing 1920s -- 4 Exhibiting Canada: Empire, migration and the 1928 English Schoolgirl Tour -- 5 Britishness and Canadian nationalism: Daughters of the Empire, mothers in their own homes, 1929-45 -- 6 'Other than stone and mortar': war memorials, memory and imperial knowledge -- 7 Conservative women and democracy: defending Cold War Canada -- 8 Modernizing the north: women, internal colonization and indigenous peoples -- Conclusion -- Note on sources -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.