Questia Homepage

Your search for: boer AND war AND women

Found 4,997 results:

Books: 4,584

|

Journal Articles: 221

|

Magazine Articles: 115

Newspaper Articles: 75

|

Encyclopedia Articles: 2

Books on: boer war women

4,584 results - MORE BOOK RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

1.

Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War

Book by Paula M. Krebs; Cambridge University Press, 1999

Subjects:

English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--South Africa, Imperialism In Literature, Race In Literature, Sex Role In Literature, South Africa--Foreign Public Opinion, British, South Africa--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, South Africa--In Literature, South African War, 1899-1902--Foreign Public Opinion, British, South African War, 1899-1902--Literature And The War

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book looks at the ways Victorian ideas about gender and race supported British imperialism at the turn of the century. It examines the Boer War of 1899-1902 through the war writings of literary figures such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, and also ...
Read More

This book looks at the ways Victorian ideas about gender and race supported British imperialism at the turn of the century. It examines the Boer War of 1899-1902 through the war writings of literary figures such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, and also through newspapers, propaganda, and other forms of public debate in print. Paula M. Krebs' analysis of the part played by ideas about gender and race in public discourse makes a significant new contribution to the study of British imperialism.
Show less
2.

The Boer War: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography

Book by Fred R. Van Hartesveldt; Greenwood Press, 2000

Subjects:

South African War, 1899-1902--Bibliography, South African War, 1899-1902--Historiography

Collections: History, Entire Library

One hundred years after the Boer War, the British continue to debate what went wrong, while the war has significant nationalist overtones in today's South Africa. This book examines changes in interpretations of the war and provides a bibliography of major sources on the Boer War, now sometimes ...
Read More

One hundred years after the Boer War, the British continue to debate what went wrong, while the war has significant nationalist overtones in today's South Africa. This book examines changes in interpretations of the war and provides a bibliography of major sources on the Boer War, now sometimes called the South African War. The bibliography focuses on the military history, but also includes some historical accounts of the political debate. The first part of the book provides an extended historiographical essay, while part two provides an annotated bibliography of the titles discussed in part one.
Show less
3.

Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation

Book by Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne Auslander Munich, Susan Merrill Squier; University of North Carolina Press, 1989

Subjects:

Feminist Literary Criticism, War In Literature, Women And The Military, Women And War, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Feminist literary criticism. 4. Women and war. 5. Women in the military. I...and Tears of Women" Neither women nor war is a self-evident category...tell. -- Jean Bethke Elshtain, Women and War The paradigmatic narrative of...
4.

Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam

Book by Elizabeth M. Norman; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990

Subjects:

Nurses--United States, Nurses--Vietnam, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Medical Care, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Women--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

Women at War Women at War The Story of Fifty Military...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Norman Elizabeth M. Women at war: the story of fifty miltary nurses who...orders for Vietnam, but for most of these women the war seemed an improbable place. Most volunteered...
5.

Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War

Book by Sharon Ouditt; Routledge, 1994

Subjects:

English Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--20th Century, World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Literature And The War, World War, 1914-1918--Women--Great Britain

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...1914-1918-Great Britain- Literature and the war. 3. Women and literature-Great Britain...century-History and criticism. 5. World War, 1914-1918-Women-Great Britain. I. Title PR478...responsible for their part in the war, women after 1918 were still hailed by...

MORE BOOK RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Journal Articles on: boer war women

221 results - MORE JOURNAL RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

1.

The "Hysterical" Emily Hobhouse and Boer War Concentration Camp Controversy

Journal article by Jr. Marouf Hasian; Western Journal of Communication, Vol. 67, 2003

Subjects:

Boer War, 1899-1902--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...initial stages of the Boer War it was fashionable...that many of these women would soon be returning...gentlemens wars": Women in the Boer War concentration camp...1991). Those bloody women: Three heroines of the Boer War. London: John Murray...
2.

British Working Women and the First World War

Journal article by Susan Pyecroft; The Historian, Vol. 56, 1994

Subjects:

Sex role--Analysis, United Kingdom--History, Working women--History, World War, 1914-1918--Women

Collections: History, Entire Library

...moreover, widows dependent on soldiers pensions had to make do on a system that had not been updated since the Boer war.(13) Many women left textiles or domestic work and entered munitions in the hope of better wages or conditions. But wartime wage...
3.

Battle Colors: Race, Sex, and Colonial Soldiery in World War I

Journal article by Philippa Levine; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 9, 1998

Subjects:

Women--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...nonwhite colonials from meeting white women on equal ground, represents a fascinating...national values that in the early years of war produced a white volunteer army willing...were a rapidly-disarmed presence in the Boer War), the Indian Army had been attentively...
4.

'But Who Considers Woman Day by Day?' Australian Women Poets and World War I

Journal article by Michael Sharkey; Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 23, 2007

Subjects:

Gilmore, Mary, Poetry--Military aspects, Poets--Military aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the role that women can play after the War take both sides of the argument. Grace Ethel Martyrs poem Afterwards urges women to exert themselves to make life bearable...especially for the wounded during the Boer War promoted her as the ultimate exemplar...
5.

Colomal Dimensions of Dutch Women's Suffrage: Aletta Jacobs's Travel Letters from Africa and Asia, 1911-1912

Journal article by Mineke Bosch; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 11, 1999

Subjects:

Women--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of "subjected women" with equally...concerning the Boer War in 1899, and...of nurses and women, but was also...result of the Boer War: Garrett Fawcett...of imprisoned Boer women and children...government for their "war on women," became...

MORE JOURNAL RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Magazine Articles on: boer war women

115 results - MORE MAGAZINE RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

1.

Boer Prisoner of War Art: Fransjohan Pretorius Explains Why the Boer War of 1899-1902 Was a Period of Sustained and Spontaneous Creation of Folk Art, One of the Most Productive and Creative Times in the Cultural History of the Afrikaner

Magazine article by Fransjohan Pretorius; History Today, Vol. 56, March 2006

Subjects:

Afrikaners--History, Boer War, 1899-1902, Military prisons--History, Prisoners of war--History, Prisons, Military--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...as motifs. There was a special bond between the Boer and his mount both in times of war and peace. The yearning for his horse became symbolized...Jezus armen (Safe in the arms of Jesus) for all the women and children who had died in the concentration...
2.

The Bitter Legacy of the Boer War

Magazine article by Albert Grundlingh; History Today, Vol. 49, November 1999

Subjects:

Afrikaners--Political activity, South African War, 1899-1902--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...a legacy of bitter memories and mutual recriminations. Of all the various facets of war, none was more controversial than the British incarceration of Boer women and children in concentration camps. It was a strategy employed by the British high...
3.

The Boer War and Its Humanitarian Critics

Magazine article by David Nash; History Today, Vol. 49, June 1999

Subjects:

Hobson, J.A.--Influence, Peace movements--Political aspects, Robertson, J.M.--Influence, South Africa--History, South African War, 1899-1902--History, War and society--Moral and ethical aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...reiterated in Emily Hobhouses book The Brunt of War). Robertson was condemned by The Times...He also emphasised that the stories of Boer atrocities were calculated to justify the...imprisonment of innocent men; of warring upon women and...
4.

The Zulus and the Boer War

Magazine article by Jabulani Maphalala; History Today, Vol. 50, January 2000

Subjects:

Afrikaners--History, South African War, 1899-1902--History, Zulu (African people)--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...back as prisoners of war. Thus, even before...militarily engaging Boer fighters. In fact...been savage, and that women and children were...prospect of losing the war and before his departure...at Vereeniging, the Boer General Louis Botha...their cattle and send women and children to Vryheid...
5.

The Origins of Women's Peace Campaigning: Helen Rappaport Charts the Early Efforts of Campaigning Women to Outlaw War

Magazine article by Helen Rappaport; History Today, Vol. 52, March 2002

Subjects:

Pacifism--History, Peace movements--Demographic aspects, Women--Attitudes

Collections: History, Entire Library

...humanitarian and pacifist Emily Hobhouse had the temerity to protest at British conduct of the Boer War of 1899-1902, exposing the appalling conditions for Afrikaner women and children in the concentration camps of the Cape, she lost friends and was vilified...

MORE MAGAZINE RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Newspaper Articles on: boer war women

75 results - MORE NEWSPAPER RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

1.

Dusty Album Casts Fresh Light on Brutal Boer War

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 16, 2008

Subjects:

Boer War, 1899-1902, Soldiers

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...original pictures." The Lydenburg Commandos who formed part of the Boer fighting force against the British; President Kruger of the Transvaal; Men from the Devonshire Regiment playing football during the Boer War and, right, a group of native Boer women
2.

When Love and Hate Collide Amidst Conflict

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), October 27, 2005

Subjects:

Boer War, 1899-1902

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the Afrikaner women who suffered...SOUTH Africas Boer War, at the end of...hardships of the Boer War, it also illustrates...the role which women played in early...of Love by the Boer women whom she tried...insight into a war which shaped...
3.

CASH BOOST FOR MEMORIAL FUND; CEREMONY: Old Soldiers to Gather for Milestone in Bid to Replace Stolen Statue

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), August 20, 2007

Subjects:

Boer War, 1899-1902--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Soldiers, Theft

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...supported a solid bronze 5ft statue of a Boer War soldier, weighing 1.5 tonnes. The...after hundreds of ex-servicemen and women attended Nuneatons annual Remembrance...bronze 5ft Buller Memorial statue of a Boer War soldier, stolen just after last years...
4.

Sex,violence and Four-Letter Words:have These Women Nothing Else to Say?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 16, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...equitable balance of women on these lists, women are never going to be judged on their merits...middle-class family in years leading up to World War I, had mixed reviews. Her two previous...who married Breaker Morant, the executed Boer War soldier, and biography of conservationist...
5.

When Women Meet

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), October 5, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ships, who helped to load the guns. One of the senior medical doctors at the Crimea was a disguised woman. In the Boer War, women formed Queen Alexandras Imperial Nursing Service. The WAAF, ATS and the WRENS were all started in the First World...

MORE NEWSPAPER RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Encyclopedia Articles on: boer war women

2 results

1.

South African War

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...however, continued an extensive and coordinated guerrilla war. Under their leaders, including Smuts, De Wet, and Botha...these guerrilla units, and adopted a scorched-earth policy. Boer women and children were herded into concentration camps where...
2.

Concentration Camp

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...built during the South African War (Boer War) to confine Afrikaners in the Transvaal...than six million mainly Jewish men, women, and children were killed in gas chambers...in the W United States during World War II. In China during the Cultural Revolution...

Newsletter | Privacy Policy | User Agreements | Questia School | About Us | Advertise with Us | Contact | FREE BOOKS

© 2008 - Questia Media America, Inc. All rights reserved. All service marks and trademarks are property of
Questia Media and its affiliates. Any advertising or navigational links included on this site are not necessarily
endorsed by the publishers or content providers whose materials appear on this site.

Sponsored Link