Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:31:59 EDT
Subject: Re: colonialism and domestic social conflict


<<Sarah wrote:  Here's a query for you: I'm hunting references to the way 
that (British)
colonialism siphons/drains/vents excess, dangerous, unruly, 'unwanted'
population at home onto/into the colonies. 

You might want to look at the superfluous woman problem after WWI.  A good 
place to start is Billie Melman's book Women and the Popular Imagination in 
the 1920s.  Best, jaime hovey


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