Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Engendering Latin America |
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Engendering Latin America (Unnumbered)
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Contents |
Introduction: "Never a coward woman" -- The making of a riot: women, wages, and war on the home front, 1912-1919 -- A fragile peace: colonial reform, Garveyism, and the Black Cross nurses, 1920-1930 -- Hurricane from below: popular protest, the Labourers and Unemployed Association, and the Women's League, 1931-1941 -- Modernizing colonialism: development, discipline, and domestication, 1935-1954 -- A new paterfamilias: the creation and control of popular nationalism, 1949-1961 -- Negotiating nationalist patriarchy: party politics, radical masculinity, and the birth of Belizean feminism, 1961-1982 -- Conclusion: gender and history in the making of modern Belize |
Summary |
The first book on women's political history in Belize, From Colony to Nation demonstrates that women were creators of and activists within the two principal political currents of twentieth-century Belize: colonial-middle class reform and popular labor-nationalism. As such, their alliances and struggles with colonial administrators, male reformers, and nationalists and with one another were central to the emergence of this improbable nation-state |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-367) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Women political activists -- Belize -- History
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Women social reformers -- Belize -- History
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Women in the labor movement -- Belize -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Women in the labor movement
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Women political activists
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Women social reformers
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SUBJECT |
Belize -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002785
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Belize
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Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780803206267 |
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0803206267 |
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9786610823727 |
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6610823723 |
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