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dc.contributor.authorKelsted, C
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-05T11:05:50Z
dc.date.issued2021-07-05
dc.description.abstractThroughout the British Mandate for Palestine (1920-1948), British women travelled to the country as missionaries, teachers, welfare workers, nurses, doctors, journalists and colonial wives. Their actions affected the lives of the people of Palestine and tell us much about the nature of British colonialism in this settler colonial context. In the existing historiography of the Mandate, a male-dominated narrative prevails, with British women receiving very little attention from historians. This is the first extensive study of these British women. It uses their correspondence, reports and publications, archived across Britain, Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories, Beirut, and Washington, D.C., to analyse their activities in various spheres of the intimate. The attitudes and actions of these women expose the variability of the colonial encounter in this setting. In Mandate Palestine, British women’s intimate colonialisms were multiple: there existed an intrusive intimacy of condescension towards the Palestinian Arab community and a paradoxically distant intimacy of respect towards the Jewish community. This was based on discourses of difference constructed by British women and underpinned by hierarchies of child-rearing, domesticity, agency and modernity, with the Jewish community typically placed further up these social scales than the Palestinian Arab community. There were however inconsistencies in, and limitations to, these multiple intimate colonialisms, which ultimately undermined the strength of British women’s discourse. This thesis develops existing histories of British women in early to mid-twentieth century Palestine and contributes to enhanced understandings of the British Mandate for Palestine more broadly. By inserting British women in Palestine into existing imperial literatures on intimate colonialisms, this thesis establishes a new framework for grappling with the nature of white women’s colonialisms in the juncture between colonial and settler colonial phenomena: the concept of multiple intimate colonialisms. This marks an important and original contribution to both colonial and settler colonial studies.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/126296
dc.publisherUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonI wish to place an embargo on my thesis to be made universally accessible via ORE, the online institutional repository, for a standard period of 18 months because I wish to publish papers using material that is substantially drawn from my thesis.en_GB
dc.subjectwomenen_GB
dc.subjecthistoryen_GB
dc.subjectmandateen_GB
dc.subjectcolonialismen_GB
dc.subjectisraelen_GB
dc.subjectpalestineen_GB
dc.subjectmiddle easten_GB
dc.subjectsocial historyen_GB
dc.subjectimperial historyen_GB
dc.subjectintimacyen_GB
dc.subjecteducationen_GB
dc.subjectprostitutionen_GB
dc.subjectcriminalityen_GB
dc.subjectmotherhooden_GB
dc.subjectpunishmenten_GB
dc.subjectpalestinian womenen_GB
dc.subjectjewish womenen_GB
dc.subjectbritish womenen_GB
dc.titleMultiple Intimate Colonialisms: British Women and the Population of Mandate Palestine (1920-1948)en_GB
dc.typeThesis or dissertationen_GB
dc.date.available2021-07-05T11:05:50Z
dc.contributor.advisorHynd, Sen_GB
dc.contributor.advisorPappe, Ien_GB
dc.contributor.advisorPrior, Cen_GB
dc.publisher.departmentHistoryen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserveden_GB
dc.type.degreetitlePhD in Historyen_GB
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_GB
dc.type.qualificationnameDoctoral Thesisen_GB
rioxxterms.versionNAen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2021-07-05
rioxxterms.typeThesisen_GB
refterms.dateFOA2021-07-05T11:06:15Z


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