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From colony to nation : women activists and the gendering of politics in Belize, 1912-1982 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Macpherson, Anne S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2007]
Series:Engendering Latin America (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Women in the labor movement > Belize > History.
Women social reformers > Belize > History.
Women political activists > Belize > History.
Belize > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Never a coward woman"
  • The making of a riot: women, wages, and war on the home front, 1912-1919
  • A fragile peace: colonial reform, Garveyism, and the Black Cross nurses, 1920-1930
  • Hurricane from below: popular protest, the Labourers and Unemployed Association, and the Women's League, 1931-1941
  • Modernizing colonialism: development, discipline, and domestication, 1935-1954
  • A new paterfamilias: the creation and control of popular nationalism, 1949-1961
  • Negotiating nationalist patriarchy: party politics, radical masculinity, and the birth of Belizean feminism, 1961-1982
  • Conclusion: gender and history in the making of modern Belize.