From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912-1982 (Engendering Latin America)

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The first book on women’s political history in Belize, From Colony to Nation demonstrates that ladies were creators of and activists inside the two principal political currents of twentieth-century Belize: colonial-middle class reform and popular labor-nationalism. As such, their alliances and struggles with colonial administrators, male reformers, and nationalists and with one any other were central to the emergence of this implausible nation-state.
 
From Colony to Nation draws on extensive research and prior to now unmined sources such as almost 100 interviews, colonial government records, the files of Belize’s first feminist organization, and court records. Anne S. Macpherson examines the tensions of the 1910s that led to the 1919 anticolonial rebel; the reform project of the 1920s, during which Garveyite women were key state allies; the militant anticolonial labor movement of the 1930s; the more ambitious reform project of the 1940s; the successful but nonrevolutionary nationalist movement of the 1950s; and the gender dynamics of party politics and both Black Power and feminist challenges to the party system within the 1960s and 1970s.
 
From Colony to Nation connects to historiographies of racialized and gendered reform in colonial and other multiracial societies and of tensions between female activism and masculine authority inside of nationalist movements and postcolonial societies.

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