TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pickles, Katie
AB  - Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organisation, formed in 1900, and still in existence, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It throws new light on women's involvement in imperialism; on the history of 'conservative' women's organisations; on women's interventions in debates concerning citizenship and national identity; and on the history of women in white settler societies. After placing the IODE (Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire) in the context of recent scholarly work in Canadian, gender, imperial history and post-colonial theory, the book follows the IODE's history through the twentieth century. Chapters focus upon the IODE's attempts to create a British Canada through its maternal feminist work in education, health, welfare and citizenship. In addition it reflects on the IODE's responses to threats to Anglo-Canadian hegemony posed by immigration, World Wars and Communism, and examines the complex relationship between imperial loyalty and settler nationalism. Tracing the organisation into the postcolonial era, where previous imperial ideas are outmoded, it considers the transformation from patriotism to charity, and the turn to colonisation at home in the Canadian North.
DO  - 10.7228/manchester/9780719063909.001.0001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 341334
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 133166764
KW  - empire
KW  - women
KW  - feminism
KW  - gender
KW  - Canada
KW  - Communism
KW  - Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/38d9f887-f149-486d-b8c3-30731815b9bb/341334.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/35055
PB  - Manchester University Press
PY  - 2002
SN  - 9780719063909
TI  - Female imperialism and national identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empirenull
ER  - 
