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From colony to nation : women activists and the gendering of politics in Belize, 1912-1982

Anne S. Macpherson (Author)
The 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. As such, their alliances and struggles with colonial administrators, male reformers, and nationalists and with one another were central to the emergence of this improbable nation-state
eBook, English, ©2007
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©2007
History
1 online resource (xviii, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780803206267, 9786610823727, 0803206267, 6610823723
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Introduction: "Never a coward woman"
The making of a riot: women, wages, and war on the home front, 1912-1919
A fragile peace: colonial reform, Garveyism, and the Black Cross nurses, 1920-1930
Hurricane from below: popular protest, the Labourers and Unemployed Association, and the Women's League, 1931-1941
Modernizing colonialism: development, discipline, and domestication, 1935-1954
A new paterfamilias: the creation and control of popular nationalism, 1949-1961
Negotiating nationalist patriarchy: party politics, radical masculinity, and the birth of Belizean feminism, 1961-1982
Conclusion: gender and history in the making of modern Belize
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011
English