Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780807821619 (0807821616)
Publish date: November 1st 1994
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Pages no: 318
Edition language: English
Burton examines the connections between imperialism, particularly in India, and the rise of the feminist movement in Britain. Rather than being any sort of chronological coincidence, she argues, the feminist movement was indelibly marked by the political, social, and religious atmosphere of the impe...