Susan Kingsley Kent
Biographic Data
| ID | 1102226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Kingsley Kent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan Kingsley |
| FAMILY NAME | Kent |
| SIGNATURE | KENT S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Making Peace
Making Peace provides a fresh context for understanding gender relations in interwar Britain, seeing in the emergence of a powerful ideology of motherhood and a reemphasis on separate spheres for men and women a corollary to the political and economic restructuring designed to reestablish social order after World War I. The war had often been explained and justified to the British public by means of images that portrayed women as hostile or frigh…
The Global 1930S
Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly international approach to exploring this turbulent decade. Though nationalism was prevalent throughout this period, Matera and Kent contend that the 1930s are better characterized by the development of internationalist impulses and transnational connections, and this volume illlustrates how the familiar events of th…
Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980
Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 tells the stories of the intertwined lives of African and British peoples over more than three centuries. In seven chapters and an epilogue, Myles Osborne and Susan Kingsley Kent explore the characters that comprised the British presence in Africa: the slave traders and slaves, missionaries and explorers, imperialists and miners, farmers, settlers, lawyers, chiefs, prophets, intellectuals, pol…
Gender and History
The British Suppression of the Women’s War
Following the counting incident in Oloko on November 25 and the initial rising of local women there, the situation appeared to colonial officials to have returned to relative calm. Captain Hill left Oloko on November 29, feeling confident that he had resolved the problem. Quite to the contrary, however, the confrontation at Oloko only confirmed the women’s suspicions regarding the intentions of British officials and their African male representat…
Pre- and Early Colonial Igbo Worlds
The Igbo-speaking people of southeastern Nigeria have inhabited, for perhaps four thousand years, the territory situated between the Niger and Cross rivers of West Africa, just north and somewhat east of the Niger Delta. For centuries, it appears that they lived self-sufficiently although not in isolation, producing their own food, textiles, and iron goods, and importing only salt and fish from Delta traders and more luxurious items like copper a…
The British View
Igbo social, political, religious, and economic practices baffled Britons, who saw in the heterarchical nature of their institutions and systems a manifestation of chaos and disorder. Their first instinct was to contrast Igbo ways with those of northern Nigerians, using gendered language to articulate the differences and to express the shortcomings, as Britons saw them, of southeastern Nigeria. Inevitably, Igbo and other southeastern Nigerian peo…
The Ogu Umunwaanyi
In late 1929, a new movement involving tens of thousands of women swept through Owerri and Calabar provinces in southeastern Nigeria. The participants’ grievances stemmed in large part from local warrant chiefs’ abuses of power and women’s declining political and economic position since the advent of the British-imposed native administration. Far more than the Nwaobiala dancers in 1925, their actions targeted the infrastructure and the symbols—ev…
What the Women Wrought
In the wake of the Women’s War, British authorities in Nigeria faced the immediate problem of (re)pacifying the country and finding ways to prevent outbreaks of protests against them in the future. Women continued their demonstrations against British authority throughout 1930 even as patrols of police and soldiers took punitive action, imposed collective fines, seized property, and burned down whole villages, seeking through an extraordinary show…
Gender and History
The Women's War of 1929
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspective
The Women's War of 1929
Chronology of Major Events Introduction Pre-and Early Colonial Igbo Life The British View: The Chaos of Igbo Life The Twin Traumas of War and Flu The Nwaobiala of 1925 The Ogu Umunwaanyi The British Suppression of the Women's War 'More Deadly than the Male' What the Women Wrought Conclusion Bibliography
Flappers and the Igbo Women’s War of 1929 (with Marc Matera)
Conservatives had attributed their electoral victory of 1924 to the votes of women, whom the party had wooed and the Daily Mail targeted in a campaign urging them to cast their ballot for the party that would bring “peace, law and order, and a stable Government.” These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Aftershocks
Aftershocks studies how meanings of shellshock and imagery presenting the traumatized psyche as shattered contributed to Britons' understandings of their political selves in the 1920s. It connects the
Sex and Suffrage in Britain 1860-1914
Women's quest for the vote Kent argues, was indissolubly linked with other feminist demands for reform which would overturn the cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity and determined their powerlessness in both public and private.
Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990
Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines:* the roles, responsibilities and identities of men and women* how power relationships were established within various gender systems* how women and men reacted to the institutions, …
Whose Family? Whose Sexuality? Whose Society? Whose History
Thematic Review
M. Jeanne Peterson, Family, Love, and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen Norma Clarke, Ambitious Heights: Writing, Friendship, Love ‐ The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle Mary Lyndon Shanley, Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850–1895 Carol Dyhouse, Feminism and the Family in England, 1880–1939
Feminists and Suffragists
The Politics of Sexual Difference
The outbreak of war in August 1914 brought to a halt the activities of both militant and constitutional suffragists in their efforts to gain votes for women. By that time, the suffrage campaign had attained the size and status of a mass movement, commanding the time, energies, and resources of thousands of men and women and riveting the attention of the British public. In early 1918, in what it defined as a gesture of recognition for women's cont…
The Politics of Sexual Difference
The outbreak of war in August 1914 brought to a halt the activities of both militant and constitutional suffragists in their efforts to gain votes for women. By that time, the suffrage campaign had attained the size and status of a mass movement, commanding the time, energies, and resources of thousands of men and women and riveting the attention of the British public. In early 1918, in what it defined as a gesture of recognition for women's cont…
The Women's War of 1929
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspective
Aftershocks
Aftershocks studies how meanings of shellshock and imagery presenting the traumatized psyche as shattered contributed to Britons' understandings of their political selves in the 1920s. It connects the
Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980
Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 tells the stories of the intertwined lives of African and British peoples over more than three centuries. In seven chapters and an epilogue, Myles Osborne and Susan Kingsley Kent explore the characters that comprised the British presence in Africa: the slave traders and slaves, missionaries and explorers, imperialists and miners, farmers, settlers, lawyers, chiefs, prophets, intellectuals, pol…
The Politics of Sexual Difference
The outbreak of war in August 1914 brought to a halt the activities of both militant and constitutional suffragists in their efforts to gain votes for women. By that time, the suffrage campaign had attained the size and status of a mass movement, commanding the time, energies, and resources of thousands of men and women and riveting the attention of the British public. In early 1918, in what it defined as a gesture of recognition for women's cont…
Feminists and Suffragists
Thematic Review
M. Jeanne Peterson, Family, Love, and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen Norma Clarke, Ambitious Heights: Writing, Friendship, Love ‐ The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle Mary Lyndon Shanley, Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850–1895 Carol Dyhouse, Feminism and the Family in England, 1880–1939
Whose Family? Whose Sexuality? Whose Society? Whose History
Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990
Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines:* the roles, responsibilities and identities of men and women* how power relationships were established within various gender systems* how women and men reacted to the institutions, …
Sex and Suffrage in Britain 1860-1914
Women's quest for the vote Kent argues, was indissolubly linked with other feminist demands for reform which would overturn the cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity and determined their powerlessness in both public and private.
Flappers and the Igbo Women’s War of 1929 (with Marc Matera)
Conservatives had attributed their electoral victory of 1924 to the votes of women, whom the party had wooed and the Daily Mail targeted in a campaign urging them to cast their ballot for the party that would bring “peace, law and order, and a stable Government.” These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Aftershocks
Aftershocks studies how meanings of shellshock and imagery presenting the traumatized psyche as shattered contributed to Britons' understandings of their political selves in the 1920s. It connects the
Gender and History
The Women's War of 1929
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspective
The Women's War of 1929
Chronology of Major Events Introduction Pre-and Early Colonial Igbo Life The British View: The Chaos of Igbo Life The Twin Traumas of War and Flu The Nwaobiala of 1925 The Ogu Umunwaanyi The British Suppression of the Women's War 'More Deadly than the Male' What the Women Wrought Conclusion Bibliography
Gender and History
The British Suppression of the Women’s War
Following the counting incident in Oloko on November 25 and the initial rising of local women there, the situation appeared to colonial officials to have returned to relative calm. Captain Hill left Oloko on November 29, feeling confident that he had resolved the problem. Quite to the contrary, however, the confrontation at Oloko only confirmed the women’s suspicions regarding the intentions of British officials and their African male representat…
Pre- and Early Colonial Igbo Worlds
The Igbo-speaking people of southeastern Nigeria have inhabited, for perhaps four thousand years, the territory situated between the Niger and Cross rivers of West Africa, just north and somewhat east of the Niger Delta. For centuries, it appears that they lived self-sufficiently although not in isolation, producing their own food, textiles, and iron goods, and importing only salt and fish from Delta traders and more luxurious items like copper a…
The British View
Igbo social, political, religious, and economic practices baffled Britons, who saw in the heterarchical nature of their institutions and systems a manifestation of chaos and disorder. Their first instinct was to contrast Igbo ways with those of northern Nigerians, using gendered language to articulate the differences and to express the shortcomings, as Britons saw them, of southeastern Nigeria. Inevitably, Igbo and other southeastern Nigerian peo…
The Ogu Umunwaanyi
In late 1929, a new movement involving tens of thousands of women swept through Owerri and Calabar provinces in southeastern Nigeria. The participants’ grievances stemmed in large part from local warrant chiefs’ abuses of power and women’s declining political and economic position since the advent of the British-imposed native administration. Far more than the Nwaobiala dancers in 1925, their actions targeted the infrastructure and the symbols—ev…
What the Women Wrought
In the wake of the Women’s War, British authorities in Nigeria faced the immediate problem of (re)pacifying the country and finding ways to prevent outbreaks of protests against them in the future. Women continued their demonstrations against British authority throughout 1930 even as patrols of police and soldiers took punitive action, imposed collective fines, seized property, and burned down whole villages, seeking through an extraordinary show…
Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980
Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 tells the stories of the intertwined lives of African and British peoples over more than three centuries. In seven chapters and an epilogue, Myles Osborne and Susan Kingsley Kent explore the characters that comprised the British presence in Africa: the slave traders and slaves, missionaries and explorers, imperialists and miners, farmers, settlers, lawyers, chiefs, prophets, intellectuals, pol…
The Global 1930S
Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly international approach to exploring this turbulent decade. Though nationalism was prevalent throughout this period, Matera and Kent contend that the 1930s are better characterized by the development of internationalist impulses and transnational connections, and this volume illlustrates how the familiar events of th…
Making Peace
Making Peace provides a fresh context for understanding gender relations in interwar Britain, seeing in the emergence of a powerful ideology of motherhood and a reemphasis on separate spheres for men and women a corollary to the political and economic restructuring designed to reestablish social order after World War I. The war had often been explained and justified to the British public by means of images that portrayed women as hostile or frigh…
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