The Society For The Oversea Settlement Of British Women 1919 1964

Author : Bonnie White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030133498
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book The Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women, 1919-1964 written by Bonnie White and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the British government's response to the 'superfluous women problem', and concerns about post-war unemployment more generally, by creating a migration society that was tasked with reducing the number of single women at home through overseas migration. The Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women (SOSBW) was created in 1919 to facilitate the transportation of female migrants to the former white settler colonies. To do so, the SOSBW worked with various domestic and dominion groups to find the most suitable women for migration, while also meeting the dominions' demands for specific types of workers, particularly women for work in domestic service. While the Society initially aimed to meet its original mandate, it gradually developed its own vision of empire settlement and refocused its efforts on aiding the migration of educated and trained women who were looking for new, modern, and professional work opportunities abroad.

Author : Bonnie White
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030133486
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women, 1919-1964 written by Bonnie White and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the British government’s response to the ‘superfluous women problem', and concerns about post-war unemployment more generally, by creating a migration society that was tasked with reducing the number of single women at home through overseas migration. The Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women (SOSBW) was created in 1919 to facilitate the transportation of female migrants to the former white settler colonies. To do so, the SOSBW worked with various domestic and dominion groups to find the most suitable women for migration, while also meeting the dominions’ demands for specific types of workers, particularly women for work in domestic service. While the Society initially aimed to meet its original mandate, it gradually developed its own vision of empire settlement and refocused its efforts on aiding the migration of educated and trained women who were looking for new, modern, and professional work opportunities abroad.

Author : Barbara Bush
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351602063
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connecting Women's Histories written by Barbara Bush and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting upon the diverse aspects of the entangled histories of women across the world (mainly, but not exclusively, during the twentieth century), this book explores the range of ways in which women’s history, international history, transnational history and imperial and global histories are interwoven. Contributors cover a diverse range of topics, including the work of British women’s activist networks in defence of, and opposition, to empire; the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women; suffrage networks in Britain and South Africa; white Zimbabwean women and belonging in the diaspora; migrant female workers as traditional agents in Tasmania; Indian ‘coolie’ women’s lives in British Malaya; Irish female medical missionary work; emigration to North America from Irish women’s convict prisons; the Women’s Party of Great Britain (1917-1919); the national and international in the making of the Finnish feminist Alexandra Gripenberg; and the relationship between the World Congress of Mothers and the Japan Mothers’ Congress. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Women’s History Review.

Author : Anna Bocking-Welch
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526131293
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book British civic society at the end of empire written by Anna Bocking-Welch and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s. It shows how participants in middle class associational life developed optimistic visions for a post-imperial global role. Through the pursuit of international friendship, through educational efforts to know and understand the world, and through the provision of assistance to those in need, the British public imagined themselves as important actors on a global stage. As this book shows, the imperial past remained an important repository of skill, experience, and expertise in the 1960s, one that was called upon by a wide range of associations to justify their developing practices of international engagement. This book will be useful to scholars of modern British history, particularly those with interests in empire, internationalism, and civil society. The book is also designed to be accessible to undergraduates studying these areas.

Author : Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain and Education in the Commonwealth written by Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
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Download or read book The Commonwealth Relations Office Year Book written by Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Evans
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303060649X
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book Making Respectable Women written by Mary Evans and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the ways in which the assessment of being or not being ‘respectable’ has been applied to women in the UK in the past one hundred and fifty years. Mary Evans shows how the term ‘respectable’ has changed and how, most importantly, the basis of the ways in which the respectability of women has been judged has shifted from a location in women’s personal, domestic and sexual behaviour to that of how women engage in contemporary forms of citizenship, not the least of which is paid work. This shift has important social and political implications that have seldom been explored: amongst these are the growing marginalisation of the validation of the traditional care work of women, the assumption that paid work is implicitly and inevitably empowering and the complex ways in which respectability and conformity to highly sexualised conventions about female appearance have been normalised. Making Respectable Women makes use of archive material to show how the changing definition of a moral and social concept can have an impact on both the behaviour and the choices of individuals and the operations of institutional power. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
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Download or read book A Guide to Zimbabwe-related Documentation in Britain written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Colonial Office Library, London written by Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
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Download or read book Union List of Serials in Canada Department of Agriculture Libraries written by Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Library and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: