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020			_a9781501763816
028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New delhi _c: 123035 _d: 22/07/2026
082			_a305.420 EIC
100			_aEichner, Carolyn J.
245			_aFeminism's Empire _c/Carolyn J Eichner.
260			_a, New York _b: Cornell University _c, 2022.
300			_axiv, 302p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b2431
520			_aFeminism's Empire investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing "pro-imperialist" and "anti-imperialist" as binary positions. By intellectually and spatially tracing the era's first French feminists' engagement with empire, Carolyn J. Eichner explores how feminists opposed—yet employed—approaches to empire in writing, speaking, and publishing. In differing ways, they ultimately tied forms of imperialism to gender liberation. Among the era's first anti-imperialists, French feminists were enmeshed in the hierarchies and epistemologies of empire. They likened their gender-based marginalization to imperialist oppressions. Imperialism and colonialism's gendered and sexualized racial hierarchies established categories of inclusion and exclusion that rested in both universalism and ideas of "nature" that presented colonized people with theoretical, yet impossible, paths to integration. Feminists faced similar barriers to full incorporation due to the gendered contradictions inherent in universalism. The system presumed citizenship to be male and thus positioned women as outsiders. Feminism's Empire connects this critical struggle to hierarchical power shifts in racial and national status that created uneasy linkages between French feminists and imperial authorities.
650			_aSocial Sciences
650			_aHistory of Feminism
650			_aWomen Right
700			_aCarolyn J Eichner.
942			_cBOOK
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