Feeble to Effeminacy: Race and Gender in the British Imperial Consciousness 1837-1901

Authors

Brett Linsley, Central Michigan UniversityFollow

Abstract

Scholars of British imperialism have given ample attention to European concepts of race and gender during the Victorian era. Much of the literature has vaguely suggested a symbiotic relationship between the concepts, but failed to assert any definitive theories. The following attempts to fill this gap by putting forward a critical interpretation of the roles that race and gender played in the imperial consciousness during this epoch. The paper demonstrates that the perceptions of race that were rampant on the imperial periphery were the unique synthesis of evolving gender identities in the Victorian metropole.

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Recommended Citation

Linsley, Brett (2013) "Feeble to Effeminacy: Race and Gender in the British Imperial Consciousness 1837-1901," Grand Valley Journal of History: Vol. 2: Iss. 2, Article 1.
Available at: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/gvjh/vol2/iss2/1