ISBN:
9781903457047
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (205 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Imperialism, Labour and the New Woman : Olive Schreiner's Social Theory
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Authors, South African ; 19th century ; Biography
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Feminists ; South Africa ; Biography
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Schreiner, Olive ; 1855-1920 ; Criticism and interpretation
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Schreiner, Olive ; 1855-1920 ; Political and social views
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Schreiner, Olive ; 1855-1920
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was the best-known feminist theorist and writer of her time. Her writings spanned a number of conventionally separate genres (including the novel, short story, allegory, political essay, polemic and theoretical treatise), which she crafted to produce a highly distinctive feminist and analytical 'voice'. A feminist who was contemporaneously an internationally-renowned social commentator, Schreiner's developing political analysis was - and still is - highly original. She developed a materially-based socialist and feminist analysis of 'labour' which led her to theorise
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note on Referencing; Epigraph; 1 Enter Olive Schreiner; The Woman Who Fits the Crisis; The Method of the Life We All Lead; What Follows; 2 A Life in Context; Introduction; Freethinking, Ethics and Relationships; The New Women and the Not So New Men; South Africa: Turning With a Keen Relish to the External World; Marriage, Politics and 'Race'; War, Pacifism and Social Change; 3 Olive Schreiner's Writings; Introduction; Writing, As Such; The Works; Her letters; The novels, finished and unfinished
Description / Table of Contents:
Dreams, stories and allegoriesA watershed: the Wollstonecraft fragment; South African writings: of politics, citizens and states; Thoughts on South Africa; The political situation; Trooper Peter; An English South African's view of the situation; Closer union; Women and labour: value, care and civilising men; Peace and war: from social mothering to the genesis of human aggression; Perhaps Only ...; And Now -; 4 Interpretations; Will the Real Olive Schreiner Please Stand Up?; The Damaged Genius; The Asthmatic Personality; Some Fatal Emotional Flaw; In the Prison-House of Colonialism
Description / Table of Contents:
The Social DarwinistThe Healing Imagination; Distinguished by a Paradox; Or, A Woman of Her Time; 5 When The Curtain Falls ... Olive Schreiner's Social Theory Reconsidered; Introduction; What Kind of Feminist Theory Did Olive Schreiner Write?; The method of the life we all lead; A striving and a striving and an ending in nothing; Times and seasons; Misty figures ... the rustle of paper passing from hand to hand; Imperialism is the euphonious title of a deadly disease; It left out one whole field; to me personally, the most important; As we sow so shall we reap; Sex parasitism
Description / Table of Contents:
A social labour theory of valueNow with the male sex form, and then with the female; The desire for vulgar domination and empire, which has ensnared us all; Small states tell for more in favour of freedom and good government; I often ... wonder what all my work would be like when it is done; Some 'Was She ... ?' Questions and Answers; Was she ... a misogynist?; Was she ... a maternalist?; Was she ... a social Darwinist?; Was she ... a racist?; Was she ... an essentialist?; And a Few 'Why Did She ... ?' Ones; Why my positive response?; Why the more critical response?; Why did she vanish?
Description / Table of Contents:
A Final CommentAppendix: Schreiner Writings and Archive Collections; References and Annotated Bibliography; Index; Name Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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