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Imperialism, Labour and the New Woman : Olive Schreiner's Social Theory.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- A Final CommentAppendix: Schreiner Writings and Archive Collections; References and Annotated Bibliography; Index; Name Index.