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Female imperialism and national identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire

By Katie Pickles

Book information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0719063906, 9780719063909
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2437434 bytes)
Series
Studies in Imperialism
Pages
256\221
Time added
2020-11-29 04:17:49

Description

This it the first full study about the biggest and longest lasting group of female imperialists in the British Empire - the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE). After placing the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire in the context of recent scholarly work in Canadian, gender, imperial history, and post-colonial theory, the book follows the IODE’s history through the 20th century. Chapters focus upon the IODE’s attempts to create a British Canada through its maternal feminist work in education, health, welfare, and citizenship. In addition it reflects on the IODE’s responses to threats to Anglo-Canadian hegemony posed by immigration, World Wars, and Communism, and examines the complex relationship between imperial loyalty and settler nationalism.

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