How Long to Read Burdens of History

How Long Does it Take to Read Burdens of History?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 28 minutes to read Burdens of History by Antoinette Burton

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority. According to Burton, Victorian and Edwardian feminists such as Josephine Butler, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and Mary Carpenter believed that the native women of colonial India constituted a special 'white woman's burden.' Although there were a number of prominent Indian women in Britain as well as in India working toward some of the same goals of equality, British feminists relied on images of an enslaved and primitive 'Oriental womanhood' in need of liberation at the hands of their emancipated British 'sisters.' Burton argues that this unquestioning acceptance of Britain's imperial status and of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority created a set of imperial feminist ideologies, the legacy of which must be recognized and understood by contemporary feminists.

How long is Burdens of History?

Burdens of History by Antoinette Burton is 318 pages long, and a total of 82,044 words.

This makes it 107% the length of the average book. It also has 100% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Burdens of History Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 28 minutes to read Burdens of History aloud.

What Reading Level is Burdens of History?

Burdens of History is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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