Empire's daughters : girlhood, whiteness, and the colonial project / Elizabeth Dillenburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dillenburg, Elizabeth, author.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Girls Friendly Society.

Girls--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Girls.

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Great Britain--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Elizabeth Dillenburg is an Assistant Professor of History at The Ohio State University at Newark.

Summary:

This book provides a study of the Girls' Friendly Society to examine how the construction of girlhood was intricately tied to constructions of whiteness and ideas of empire. It uses correspondences, newsletters, scrapbooks, and photographs to reveal the often-overlooked role of girls in the British empire.

Contents:

Introduction: Constructing and contesting girlhood and whiteness in the British empire1 Purity and the origins of the Girls' Friendly Society 2 Imperial education programmes and the construction of colonial knowledge and racial difference3 Class, race, and competing objectives within girls' emigration programmes4 Contested ideas of whiteness and race in the Girls' Friendly Society5 Shifting colonial relations and ideas of girlhood and the decline of the Girls' Friendly Society ConclusionAppendix: List of key figures in the Girls' Friendly Society

..

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) license.

Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and e-publication, viewed November 13th, 2024.

ISBN:

1-5261-6352-7

1-5261-6350-0

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access