 | Women and Empire 1750-1939: Volume IV: India First published in 2008. Women and Empire, 1750-1939 functions to extend significantly the range of the History of Feminism series (co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse), bringing together the histories of British and American women's emancipation, represented in earlier sets, into juxtaposition with histories produced by different kinds of imperial and colonial governments. The alignment of writings from a range of Anglo-imperial contexts reveals the overlapping histories and problems, while foregrounding cultural specificities and contextual inflections of imperialism. The volumes focus on countries, regions, or continents formerly colonized (in part) by Britain: Volume I: Australia, Volume II: New Zealand, Volume III: Africa, Volume IV: India, Volume V: Canada. Perhaps the most novel aspect of this collection is its capacity to highlight the common aspects of the functions of empire in their impact on women and their production of gender, and conversely, to demonstrate the actual specificity of particular regional manifestations. Concerning questions of power, gender, class and race, this new Routledge-Edition Synapse Major Work will be of particular interest to scholars and students of imperialism, colonization, women's history, and women's writing. Cheryl Cassidy is Professor in the department of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University, USA. Her publications include Dying in the Light: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Female Obituaries. Caroline Daley is Associate Professor in the department of History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Leisure & Pleasure: Reshaping & Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960; Girls and Women, Men and Boys: Gender in Taradale 1886-1930; and co-editor of The Gendered Kiwi and Suffrage & Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives. Elizabeth Dimock is Honorary Research Associate & Seminar Convenor, African Research Institute, & History Program, Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia. Susan K Martin is an Associate Professor in the English program at La Trobe University, Australia. She is co-author of Reading the Garden: the Settlement of Australia, and co-editor of Green Pens: an Anthology of Australian Garden Writing. |
