imperialism, gender and the body politic during the reign of Victoria and Wilhelmina
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Dutch crossing : a journal of low countries studies
- Magazine Year
- 2002
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Grever, Maria
- Shelfmark
- map: Geschiedenis 2002
- Thesaurus
- vorstenhuizen, Brits, Nederlands, kolonialisme, imperialisme, gender, vrouwbeelden, geschiedenis, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a nation state's claim to moral and racial superiority always needed of an irreproachable figurehead. Imperial politics and nationhood were often projected into personalized images. Queens fitted into that discourse, although sometimes uncomfortably so because of their sex. The English Queen Victoria and the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina are remarkable examples. Author's focus is on how these queens cultivated their royal distinction from those they ruled, in particular their subjects in the colonies, and how others appropriated those royal rituals and images.