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Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash

Crozier-De Rosa, Sharon

2018,2017

Overview

i Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash examines how women opposed to the feminist campaign for the vote in early twentieth-century Britain, Ireland, and Australia used shame as a political tool. It demonstrates just how proficient women were in employing a diverse vocabulary of emotions—drawing on concepts such as embarrassment, humiliation, honour, courage, and chivalry—in the attempt to achieve their political goals. It looks at how far nationalist contexts informed each gendered emotional community at a time when British imperial networks were under extreme duress. The book presents a unique history of gender and shame, which demonstrates just how versatile and ever-present this social emotion was in the feminist politics of the British Empire in the early decades of the twentieth century. It employs a fascinating new thematic lens to histories of anti-feminist/feminist entanglements by tracing national and transnational uses of emotions by women to police their own political communities. It also challenges the common notion that shame had little place in a modernising world by revealing how far groups of patriotic womanhood, globally, deployed shame to combat the effects of feminist activism.ii iii

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: Anti-Feminism / Anti-feminism -- Australia -- History / Anti-feminism -- Great Britain -- History / Blame / British History / Feminism / Gender / Imperialism / Irish History / Modern History 1750-1945 / Nationalism / Patriotism -- Australia -- History / Patriotism -- Great Britain -- History / Shame / Shame in literature / Sharon Crozier-De Rosa / Social & Cultural History / Suffrage / Women -- Identity / Women -- Political activity -- Australia -- History / Women -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History / Women -- Psychology / Women's & Gender History
• ISBN: 9780415635868, 0415635861, 0367867397, 9780367867393