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British female emigration societies and the New World, 1860-1914

Title

British female emigration societies and the New World, 1860-1914 / Marie Ruiz.

Author

Ruiz, Marie

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
©2017

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Description

xxvii, 292 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm

Summary

This book focuses on the departure of Britain's 'surplus' women to Australia and New Zealand organised by Victorian British female emigration societies. Starting with an analysis of the surplus of women question, it then explores the philanthropic nature of the organisations (the Female Middle Class Emigration Society, the Women's Emigration Society, the British Women's Emigration Association, and the Church Emigration Society). The study of the strict selection of distressed gentlewomen emigrants is followed by an analysis of their marketing value, and an appraisal of women's imperialism. Finally, this work shows that the female emigrants under study partook in the consolidation of the colonial middle-class. --

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-286) and index.

Contents

1. The Female Emigration Societies and the Surplus of Women Question -- 2. The Female Emigration Societies and Their Organisers -- 3. The Emigrants -- 4. The Female Emigration Societies and the Langham Place Activists -- 5. Historiography -- 6. Organisation of the Book -- Notes -- The Female Emigration Societies and the `Eye of Power' -- 1. The Female Emigration Societies Within a Changing Society: Periodisation -- 2. The Model and Plurality of Female Emigration Societies -- 3. The Women's Emigration Society (1880 -- 1884) and the Church Emigration Society (1886 -- 1929): Class and Gender Subaltern Roles -- 4. Knowledge Is Power -- 5. Surplus Women and the `Eye of Power' -- 6. Women and Work -- 7. Respectable Occupations for Gentlewomen: The Case of Governessing -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- The Female Emigration Societies and Philanthropy -- 1. Defining the Female Emigration Societies' Activities: Charity or Philanthropy? -- 2. Was the Organisation of Female Emigration a Disinterested Act? -- 3. Who Supported the Female Emigration Societies? -- 4. A Gender Study of Male and Female Supporters -- 5. Philanthropy: A Class and Gender Perspective -- 6. The Female Emigration Societies' Donors -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- Selecting and Training Female Emigrants -- 1. Selecting `Perfect' Candidates -- 2. Selection or Selectionism? The Female Emigration Societies Engaged in an Elitist Process -- 3. Female Emigrants' Training Centres: Wife Factories for Colonial Settlers? -- 4. A Class Society Through the Prism of the Female Emigration Societies -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- From the Abduction of the Sabine Women to the Exportation of British Women -- 1. From Heroism to Overprotection -- 2. The Export of British Women -- 3. From Objects to Subjects: The Creation of `New Women' -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Imperialist Ladies: A Gender Recodification -- 1. When the Empire Became a Female Matter -- 2. The Creation of New Female Public Figures -- 3. Real Women? The Organisers from an Androgynous Perspective: The Case of Maria Rye -- 4. Exceptional Women? -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Australia and New Zealand: Heterotopias of the Metropole? -- 1. An Asymmetrical Relationship Between Britain and Its Colonies -- 2. Redefining the Notion of `Frontier' -- 3. The Female Emigration Societies at the Service of Triumphant Anglo-Saxonism -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Arrival in the Colonies: The Building Up of a New Social Body Through Gender, Class and Race -- 1. The Immigrants and the Assistance Continuum -- 2. From Subjugated to Subjugating? The Building up of Indigeneity -- 3. Metropolitan Perceptions of Colonial Women -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion -- 1. General Conclusion -- 2. Transition from Private to Public Assistance: Relationships with the Elites -- 3. Reformatory Actions and Patriotic Maternity -- 4. A Gender Approach to the Female Emigration Societies -- 5. Remnants from the Female Emigration Societies -- Notes.

ISBN

331950178X
9783319501789

LCCN

2017943367

OCLC

ocn962008334
962008334
SCSB-8895484

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library