Add to ORKGSettler colonies and colonies of occupation, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Ireland, South Africa, and the Caribbean, held out the possibility for girls to experience freedom from, and the potential to reconfigure, British norms of femininity. This special issue of the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies on colonial girlhood seeks to examine how colonial girlhood was constructed and redefined in colonial texts and cultures. It also explores the transnational influence of these ideologies of girlhood as they circulated throughout the British empire and elsewhere
This paper seeks to bridge a gap in feminist critique of gender and empire with regard to the foundi...
New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire extends our understanding of the gendered worki...
The colonial world was no place for a woman, let alone a lady; it was a man\u27s world, demanding pi...
What can girlhoods help us to see about colonialism that may not otherwise be apparent? Around the w...
This article explores two series of girls\u27 annuals: the Empire Annual for Australian Girls (1909-...
Nineteenth-century girlhood was imagined as a decisive period of liminality: distinct from both chil...
International audienceIndigenous girls often appear as silent bystanders in the narratives of imperi...
The history of colonial children’s literature is intriguingly complex. Most of the books and magazin...
Indigenous girls often appear as silent bystanders in the annals of British Malaya. Yet, their activ...
This article focuses on the representation of girlhood, gender and mateship particular to Australia,...
From verses written on shipboard to poetry published by prestigious London presses, from settler tal...
This paper seeks to bridge a gap in feminist critique of gender and empire with regard to the foundi...
In this paper we examine the politics of print and digital archives and their implications for resea...
The complexity of the British imperial endeavor is explored in this study; this is exemplified by ho...
Since the mid-eighteenth century, British families have relied on South Asian women known as ayahs t...
This paper seeks to bridge a gap in feminist critique of gender and empire with regard to the foundi...
New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire extends our understanding of the gendered worki...
The colonial world was no place for a woman, let alone a lady; it was a man\u27s world, demanding pi...
What can girlhoods help us to see about colonialism that may not otherwise be apparent? Around the w...
This article explores two series of girls\u27 annuals: the Empire Annual for Australian Girls (1909-...
Nineteenth-century girlhood was imagined as a decisive period of liminality: distinct from both chil...
International audienceIndigenous girls often appear as silent bystanders in the narratives of imperi...
The history of colonial children’s literature is intriguingly complex. Most of the books and magazin...
Indigenous girls often appear as silent bystanders in the annals of British Malaya. Yet, their activ...
This article focuses on the representation of girlhood, gender and mateship particular to Australia,...
From verses written on shipboard to poetry published by prestigious London presses, from settler tal...
This paper seeks to bridge a gap in feminist critique of gender and empire with regard to the foundi...
In this paper we examine the politics of print and digital archives and their implications for resea...
The complexity of the British imperial endeavor is explored in this study; this is exemplified by ho...
Since the mid-eighteenth century, British families have relied on South Asian women known as ayahs t...
This paper seeks to bridge a gap in feminist critique of gender and empire with regard to the foundi...
New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire extends our understanding of the gendered worki...
The colonial world was no place for a woman, let alone a lady; it was a man\u27s world, demanding pi...