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From Colony to Nation Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912-1982 / Anne S. Macpherson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Macpherson, Anne S.
- Series:
- Engendering Latin America (Unnumbered)
- Engendering Latin America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in the labor movement--Belize--History.
- Women in the labor movement.
- Women social reformers--Belize--History.
- Women social reformers.
- Women political activists--Belize--History.
- Women political activists.
- Belize--History.
- Belize.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (407 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-367) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610823727
- 9781280823725
- 1280823720
- 9780803206267
- 0803206267
- OCLC:
- 476036051
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