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Title
British female emigration societies and the New World, 1860-1914 / Marie Ruiz.
ISBN
9783319501796 (electronic book)
3319501798 (electronic book)
9783319501789
331950178X
9783319501789
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-50179-6 doi
Call Number
JV6347
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.489691
Summary
This book focuses on the departure of Britain's surplus" women to Australia and New Zealand organised by British female philanthropic societies, which were founded in order to assist and protect their strictly selected gentlewomen emigrants. Starting with an analysis of the surplus of women question in the national censuses and in the press, this book then explores the philanthropic nature of the organisations under study (the Female Middle Class Emigration Society, the Women's Emigration Society, the British Women's Emigration Association, and the Church Emigration Society). A study of the rigorous selection process imposed on the female middle-class emigrants is followed by an analysis of their marketing value, as well as an appraisal of women's imperialism. Finally, this work proves that the colonies represented heterotopias of the Motherland, and that the female emigrants under study partook in the consolidation of the colonial middle-class.-- Provided by publisher.
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PREFACE; PHILIPPA LEVINE
INTRODUCTION
THE FEMALE EMIGRATION SOCIETIES AND THE "EYE OF POWER"
THE FEMALE EMIGRATION SOCIETIES AND PHILANTHROPY
SELECTING AND TRAINING FEMALE EMIGRANTS
FROM THE ABDUCTION OF THE SABINE WOMEN TO THE EXPORTATION OF BRITISH WOMEN
IMPERIALIST LADIES: A GENDER RE-CODIFICATION
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: HETEROTOPIAS OF THE MOTHERLAND?
ARRIVAL IN THE COLONIES: THE BUILDING UP OF A NEW SOCIAL BODY THROUGH GENDER, CLASS AND RACE
CONCLUSION
APPENDICES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX .
