From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912-1982The 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. |
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Women Wages and War on the Home Front 19121919 | 29 |
Colonial Reform Garveyism and the Black Cross Nurses 19201930 | 72 |
Popular Protest the Labourers and Unemployed Association and the Womens League 19311941 | 115 |
Development Discipline and Domestications 19351954 | 159 |
The Creation and Control of Popular Nationalism 19491961 | 195 |
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From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in ... Anne S. Macpherson No preview available - 2009 |
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