`Fair ones of a purer caste': White women and colonialism in nineteenth-century British Columbia.
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| Title: | `Fair ones of a purer caste': White women and colonialism in nineteenth-century British Columbia. |
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| Authors: | Perry, Adele |
| Source: | Feminist Studies. Fall97, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p501. 24p. |
| Subjects: | White women, History of British Columbia |
| Geographic Terms: | British Columbia, Canada |
| Abstract: | Examines the status of white women and colonialism in British Columbia, focusing on the years between 1858 and 1871. Configuration of gender and race shaped out of British Columbia's local colonial project; Construction of white women as colonizers; Emergence of discourse that privileged the political utility of ordinary, working-class women. |
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| Abstract: | Examines the status of white women and colonialism in British Columbia, focusing on the years between 1858 and 1871. Configuration of gender and race shaped out of British Columbia's local colonial project; Construction of white women as colonizers; Emergence of discourse that privileged the political utility of ordinary, working-class women. |
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| ISSN: | 00463663 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/3178383 |
