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In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority.According to Burton, Victorian and Edwardian feminists such as Josephine Butler, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and Mary Carpenter believed that the native women of colonial India constituted a special white womans burden. Although there were a number of prominent Indian women in Britain as well as in India working toward some of the same goals of equality, British feminists relied on images of an enslaved and primitive Oriental womanhood in need of liberation at the hands of their emancipated British sisters. Burton argues that this unquestioning acceptance of Britains imperial status and of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority created a set of imperial feminist ideologies, the legacy of which must be recognized and understood by contemporary feminists.
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1994 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Burton, Antoinette M., 1961 Burdens of history: British feminists, Indian women, and imperial culture, 1865-1915 / Antoinette Burton. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8078-2161-6 (alk. paper).ISBN 0-8078-4471-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. FeminismGreat BritainHistory. 2. FeministsGreat Britain AttitudesHistory. 3. WomenIndiaHistory. 4. Imperialism History. I. Title. HQ1593.B87 1994 305.42' 0941dc20 94-5722 CIP
98 97 96 95 94 5 4 3 2 1
Parts of Chapters 1 and 4 appeared in "The White Woman's Burden: British Feminists and 'The Indian Woman,' 1865-1915," Women's Studies International Forum 13, no. 4 (1990): 295-308.
A shorter version of Chapter 6 appeared as "The Feminist Quest for Identity: British Imperial Suffragism and 'Global Sisterhood,' 1900-1915," Journal of Women's History 3, no. 2 (Fall 1991 ): 46-81.
A FRANCESCO E MARIA DOMINICA da qui ho imparato il senso dell'amore senza condizioni
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
One
The Politics of Recovery:
Historicizing Imperial Feminism, 1865-1915
1
Two
Woman in the Nation:
Feminism, Race, and Empire in the "National" Culture
33
Three
Female Emancipation and the Other Woman
63
Four
Reading Indian Women:
Feminist Periodicals and Imperial Identity
97
Five
The White Woman's Burden:
Josephine Butler and the Indian Campaign, 1886- 1915
127
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Six
A Girdle round the Earth:
British Imperial Suffrage and the Ideology of Global Sisterhood
171
Seven
Representation, Empire, and Feminist History
207
Notes
213
Bibliography
271
Index
295
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Acknowledgments
My gratitude for the support and sustenance I have received over the years is as heartfelt as it is longstanding. To those who first nurtured me at the Agnes Irwin School, especially George Barnett, Eleanor Cederstrom, Evelyn Dohan, Lucy Knauer, and R. Patricia Trickey, I owe perhaps the most overdue acknowledgment. Thanks to Emmet Larkin for supervising a thesis that ranged far from his beloved Ireland; to Barney Cohn and Peter Marshall for their unfailing interest and their "colonial" and "imperial" perspectives; to Jim Grossman for his concern and dedication; and to Nupur Chaudhuri and Peg Strobel for their generosity toward me. Thanks also go to Rani Fedson for giving me shelter when I was in need of it; to Joan Anderson for offering me a ''home away from home"; and to Michele Scheinkman, for keeping safe all of the personal history I've deposited in her.
Feminist communities at the University of Chicago, at Indiana State University, and at The Johns Hopkins University have proven invaluable to me as I conceived, wrestled with, wrote, and reworked this book. I have appreciated the opportunity to present my work in both the Feminist Theory Workshop and the Gender and Cross-Cultural Feminisms Workshop at Chicago and at a variety of research and public-speaking forums sponsored by the Department of History and the Women's Studies Program at ISU. This project has also profited from the input of members of the Imperial History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research and the
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Institute for Commonwealth Studies, London, as well as from comments by Angela Woollacott and participants at the Women's Studies Program seminar series at Case Western Reserve University.
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