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Author Ruiz, Marie, author

Title British female emigration societies and the New World, 1860-1914 / Marie Ruiz
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

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Contents PREFACE; PHILIPPA LEVINE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE FEMALE EMIGRATION SOCIETIES AND THE "EYE OF POWER" -- THE FEMALE EMIGRATION SOCIETIES AND PHILANTHROPY -- SELECTING AND TRAINING FEMALE EMIGRANTS -- FROM THE ABDUCTION OF THE SABINE WOMEN TO THE EXPORTATION OF BRITISH WOMEN -- IMPERIALIST LADIES: A GENDER RE-CODIFICATION -- AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: HETEROTOPIAS OF THE MOTHERLAND? -- ARRIVAL IN THE COLONIES: THE BUILDING UP OF A NEW SOCIAL BODY THROUGH GENDER, CLASS AND RACE -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDICES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary This book focuses on the departure of Britain's surplus" women to Australia and New Zealand organised by British female philanthropic societies, which were founded in order to assist and protect their strictly selected gentlewomen emigrants. Starting with an analysis of the surplus of women question in the national censuses and in the press, this book then explores the philanthropic nature of the organisations under study (the Female Middle Class Emigration Society, the Women's Emigration Society, the British Women's Emigration Association, and the Church Emigration Society). A study of the rigorous selection process imposed on the female middle-class emigrants is followed by an analysis of their marketing value, as well as an appraisal of women's imperialism. Finally, this work proves that the colonies represented heterotopias of the Motherland, and that the female emigrants under study partook in the consolidation of the colonial middle-class.-- Provided by publisher
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 31, 2017)
Subject Women immigrants -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Women immigrants -- British colonies.
Emigration and immigration.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Subject Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
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