Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-367) and index.
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.
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The first book on women's political history in Belize, From Colony to Nation demonstrates that women were creators of and activists within the two principal political currents of twentieth-century Belize: colonial-middle class reform and popular labor-nationalism. As such, their alliances and struggles with colonial administrators, male reformers, and nationalists and with one another were central to the emergence of this improbable nation-state.
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From colony to nation.
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Women in the labor movement-- Belize-- History.
Women political activists-- Belize-- History.
Women social reformers-- Belize-- History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Process-- Political Advocacy.