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  • Cassidy et al.: Women and Empire, 1750-1939, Vol. III

    Volume III: Africa

    Edited by Elizabeth Dimock ...
    First published in 2008. Women and Empire, 1750-1939 functions to extend significantly the range of the History of Feminism series (co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse), bringing together the histories of British and American women's emancipation, represented in earlier sets, into juxtaposition with histories produced by different kinds of imperial and colonial governments. The alignment ... Read more

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  • Women, Mission and Church in Uganda

    Ethnographic encounters in an age of imperialism, 1895-1960s

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    This volume recounts the experiences of female missionaries who worked in Uganda in and after 1895. It examines the personal stories of those women who were faced with a stubbornly masculine administration representative of a wider masculine administrative network in Westminster and other outposts of the British Empire. Encounters with Ugandan women and men of a range of ethnicities, the gender ... Read more

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