Beyond surplus, beyond motherhood : British migrant women, 1914-1929
The following study gives attention to the history of women who left the UK to settle overseas between 1914 and 1929, specifically in the British Dominions of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It introduces female migration during this period as an aspect of women's history that focuses on occupational diversity, paid and unpaid, within and outside of marriage. It adds to existing studies of overseas settlement during the interwar years while introducing the First World War as a period for which a gendered migration historiography can also be applied. The study considers this chronological span as a continuum of activity, established during the age of the Great Migration of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and discusses patterns common to an extended period of overseas settlement, while also identifying variance. Central to the thesis is the study of occupation amongst British migrant women, a theme used as a foundation to discuss self-determination in the context of two constructs that framed female migration and empire settlement: 'surplus' women and the ideal of motherhood. The construct of 'surplus' women, on which nineteenth- and early twentieth-century migration schemes were built, is probed,
Mulhearn, Rachel M.
Beyond surplus, beyond motherhood : British migrant women, 1914-1929. The following study gives attention to the history of women who left the UK to settle overseas between 1914 and 1929, specifically in the British Dominions of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It introduces female migration during this period as an aspect of women's history that focuses on occupational diversity, paid and unpaid, within and outside of marriage. It adds to existing studies of overseas settlement during the interwar years while introducing the First World War as a period for which a gendered migration historiography can also be applied. The study considers this chronological span as a continuum of activity, established during the age of the Great Migration of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and discusses patterns common to an extended period of overseas settlement, while also identifying variance. Central to the thesis is the study of occupation amongst British migrant women, a theme used as a foundation to discuss self-determination in the context of two constructs that framed female migration and empire settlement: 'surplus' women and the ideal of motherhood. The construct of 'surplus' women, on which nineteenth- and early twentieth-century migration schemes were built, is probed,
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