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8 juin 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.efr.36422
- isbn: 9782728313785
- eisbn: 9782728315253
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Van Nederveen Meerkerk Elise, « Gender and empire », Publications de l’École française de Rome, ID : 10.4000/books.efr.36422
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This paper aims to give a bird eye’s view on developments in postcolonial gender and women’s studies over the past 25 years, especially from the point of view of social and economic history. It will look at how recent historiography has addressed questions such as: How can the voices be uncovered of indigenous women who, being ‘natives’ and women, rarely surface in the colonial archives? What role did gender play in the hybrid environments of colonial frontiers, in which different cultures both collided and intermingled? How ‘national’ is national in the context of empires, which most larger western countries had, and how does it relate to the notion of women’s citizenship both in colony and metropole? And, equally important, how did colonial connections affect women’s identity and gender relations in the metropole? By highlighting these issues, I wish to show how the postcolonial perspective has enriched women’s and gender history, also for those who work exclusively on the history Western women.