Table of Contents: From colony to nation :

Main Author:	Macpherson, Anne S.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Series:	Engendering Latin America
Subjects:	Women political activists > History. > Belize Women social reformers > History. > Belize Women in the labor movement > History. > Belize POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies. Women in the labor movement. Women political activists. Belize > History. Belize.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: "Never a coward woman"
The making of a riot: women, wages, and war on the home front, 1912-1919
A fragile peace: colonial reform, Garveyism, and the Black Cross nurses, 1920-1930
Hurricane from below: popular protest, the Labourers and Unemployed Association, and the Women's League, 1931-1941
Modernizing colonialism: development, discipline, and domestication, 1935-1954
A new paterfamilias: the creation and control of popular nationalism, 1949-1961
Negotiating nationalist patriarchy: party politics, radical masculinity, and the birth of Belizean feminism, 1961-1982
Conclusion: gender and history in the making of modern Belize.