Beyond the Pale
White Women, Racism, and History
Published on 9. June 2015
288 pages
978-1-78478-013-5 (ISBN)
Description
How have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has largely developed as a political movement within racist societies. Dissecting the different meanings of femininity and womanhood, Beyond the Pale examines the political connections between black and white women, both in contemporary society and in history, including the anti-slavery movement. A major contribution to anti-racist work, Beyond the Pale confronts the historical meanings of whiteness as a way of overcoming the moralism that so often infuses anti-racist movements.
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Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78478-013-5 (9781784780135)
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06/2015
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Persons
VRON WARE is the author of Military Migrants: Fighting for YOUR Country, and a research fellow at the Center for Research on Sociocultural Change, and the Center for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at The Open University.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Mikki Kendall
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One: The White Woman's Burden?: Race and Gender in Historical Memory
- Part Two: An Abhorrence of Slavery: Subjection and Subjectivity in Abolitionist Politics
- Part Three: Britannia's Other Daughters: Feminism in the Age of Imperialism
- Part Four: 'To Make the Facts Known': Racial Terror and the Construction of White Femininity
- Part Five: Taking the Veil: Towards a Partnership for Change
