Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture

by Antoinette Burton (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $65.39

  Explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, Antoinette Burton reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority.