Women and the Orange Order: Female activism, diaspora and empire in the British world, 1850-1940 - Hardcover

MacPherson, D. A. J.

 
9780719087318: Women and the Orange Order: Female activism, diaspora and empire in the British world, 1850-1940
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0719087317 ISBN 13: 9780719087318
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Women and the Orange Order examines the growth and activism of Orange women in England, Scotland and Canada since the mid-nineteenth century and argues that they were central to the development of Orange associational culture up to the Second World War. This study also explores how women were key participants in the formation of diasporic connections throughout the British world, building on links created by migration and the Empire. It reveals that the ordinary - and largely working-class - women who joined the Orange Order eagerly engaged in the public lives of their communities, in conservative politics and in upholding the ideologies of the British Empire. In its examination of gender, ethnicity, class and imperialism, Women and the Orange Order will appeal to readers interested in the history of the Irish diaspora, women's public activism and the British Empire.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

D. A. J. MacPherson is Lecturer in History at the Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands

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This book tells, for the first time, the remarkable and unexpected story of women's participation in the Orange Order.

The Orange Order is often characterised as a thoroughly masculinist brotherhood, associated with Irish sectarian violence. Women played a key role, however, in the development of Orangeism in the British world, and by the 1930s were numerically the most significant element of the Orange Order in Scotland. This ground-breaking study of female Orangeism provides an important contribution to our understanding of Irish women within the diasporic contexts of Britain and Canada, and addresses broader questions within migration history about the gendered nature of ethnic associational activity.

Women and the Orange Order examines the growth and activism of Orangewomen in England, Scotland and Canada since the mid-nineteenth century and argues that they were central to the development of Orange associational culture up to the Second World War. It also explores how women were key participants in the formation of diasporic connections throughout the British world, building on links created by migration and the Empire. The book reveals that the ordinary - and largely working-class - women who joined the Orange Order eagerly engaged in the public lives of their communities, in conservative politics and in upholding the ideologies of the British Empire.

In its examination of gender, ethnicity, class and imperialism, Women and the Orange Order will appeal to readers interested in the history of the Irish diaspora, women's public activism and the British Empire.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719087317
ISBN 13 
9780719087318
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
242
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