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27. Juni 2024 · That many studies in African and imperial history neglect women and gender is a commonplace. Using a case-study – the British Cape Colony and its frontier zones – this article attempts to demonstrate some consequences of this neglect.
1. Juni 2021 · Our main finding shows that the British colonial rule had a two-sided legacy for women that is still visible today. On the one hand, it empowered women economically in terms of access to employment and being paid in cash wages. On the other hand, it made women highly vulnerable to domestic violence.
13. Dez. 2016 · The popular image of the hypersexual Black woman arose with and was essential to the creation of the White, marriageable “lady” under colonialism—prostitutes and concubines within the colony who were women of color made White female virginity possible (Collins, 1995, p. 239; Stoler, 1989).
28. Jan. 2018 · The history of colonialism and African womanhood is characterized by protracted negotiations, reformulations, and contestations of strategies by African women as they dealt with diverse constituencies and conditions that mediated their lives, their households , and their communities .
21. Apr. 2016 · The relationship of colonialism and gender is complex and mutually impactful. Colonial texts and histories show us how gender redefined the boundaries and structures of imperial rule and how in turn colonialism and globalization reshaped notions of femininity and masculinity.
1. Jan. 2011 · Spivak and Mohanty explore the history and legacy of colonialism and postcolonialism and their effect on the enforcement of gender constructions. By questioning both western feminism and patriarchal postcolonialism, these theorists begin to explore the complexity of how transnational feminisms can inform both theory and practice.
5. Sept. 2022 · What do we do with the insight that women played a crucial role in empire? How does it challenge the feminist project of ‘recovery’, of wanting to salvage the experiences of ordinary/extraordinary women in the past, from what were once the margins of history?
