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

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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 s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Macpherson, Anne S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Colección:Engendering Latin America (Unnumbered)
Temas:
Women political activists > Belize > History.
Women social reformers > Belize > History.
Women in the labor movement > Belize > History.
Femmes activistes > Belize > Histoire.
Réformatrices sociales > Belize > Histoire.
Femmes dans le mouvement ouvrier > Belize > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Women in the labor movement
Women political activists
Women social reformers
Belize > History.
Belize
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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