Empire, Gender, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century
Title | Empire, Gender, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2007 |
Authors | Wilson, Kathleen |
Editor | Levine, Philippa |
Book Title | Gender and Empire |
Pagination | 14-45 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
City | Oxford |
Abstract | What role did gender play in motivating, maintaining, and challenging the eighteenth-century British Empire? Recent scholarship has just begun to address that question. Spurred by a growing interest in questions of identity and cultural difference, historians of eighteenth-century Britain are beginning to bring the histories of the British nation and the British Empire together and in relation to each other. The importance of gender as a relation of power has been one of the most prominent themes of this new work. This chapter will examine the centrality of gender to British dominion and British modernity and to the categories of difference that Empire claimed to have 'discovered,' vindicated and sustained. |
URL | https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199249503.001.0001/acprof-9780199249503-chapter-2 |
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