Women, migration and empire / edited by Joan Grant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grant, Joan, 1962-

London Feminist History Group.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women immigrants--Great Britain--History.

Women philanthropists.

History.

Antislavery movements.

Women abolitionists.

Irish.

Jewish women.

Women, Black.

Minority women.

Emigration and immigration.

Women immigrants.

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History.

Minority women--Great Britain--History.

Women, Black--Great Britain--History.

Jewish women--Great Britain--History.

Irish--Great Britain--History.

Women abolitionists--Great Britain--History.

Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History.

Women philanthropists--Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xi, 153 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stoke-on-Trent, England : Trentham Books, 1996.

Contents:

In search of Mary's past : placing nineteenth century Irish immigrant women in British feminist history / Ann Rossiter

Race, class and gender : the experience of Jewish prostitutes and other Jewish women in the East End of London at the turn of the century / Lara Marks

William Brown and other women : Black women in London, c1740-1840 / Joan Grant

"Remember those in bonds, as bound with them" : women's approach to anti-slavery campaigning in Britain, 1780-1870 / Clare Midgley

Some of us are imperialists, some of us are not / Florence Hamilton

Middle-class Anglo-Jewish lady philanthropists and Eastern European Jewish women : the first national conference of Jewish women, 1902 / Rickie Burman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book evolved out of a series of discussions held by the London Feminist History Group in response to criticisms levelled at an International Women's History Conference in Amsterdam"--P. vii.

ISBN:

1858560489

OCLC:

35211546