Gendering the Settler State

<p>White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire. They tend to be remembered as malicious harridans personifying the worst excesses of colonialism as vacuous fusspots whose lives were punctuated by a series of frivolous pastimes or as casualties of patriarchy constrained by male actions and gendered ideologies. This book which places itself amongst other new imperial histories argues that the reality of the situation is of course much more intricate and complex. Focusing on post-war colonial Rhodesia <i>Gendering the Settler State </i>provides a fine-grained analysis of the role(s) of white women in the colonial enterprise arguing that they held ambiguous and inconsistent views on a variety of issues including liberalism gender race and colonialism.</p>