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Title: | 'White Woman's Country': Ethel Tawse Jollie and the Making of White Rhodesia |
Author: | Lowry, Donal |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 259-281 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Great Britain |
Subjects: | colonialism women biographies (form) History and Exploration Women's Issues Historical/Biographical Politics and Government |
About person: | Ethel Tawse Jollie |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637621 |
Abstract: | Until recently, the role of European women in the expansion and consolidation of the British colonial empire has been largely ignored by both historians and women's studies scholars. This is an analysis of one such woman who played a leading role in the development of the British empire in south-central Africa - particularly Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) -, Ethel Tawse Jollie (1875-1950), formerly Ethel Colquhoun. In partnership with her first husband, Archibald Ross Colquhoun, she became steeped in the philosophy of the Edwardian 'Radical Right', the post-Anglo-Boer War reaction to imperial decline, and she played a prominent role in the opposition to the women's suffrage campaign before the Great War. As a member of the Legislative Council of Southern Rhodesia, she became the first woman parliamentarian in the British overseas empire. She was a prolific writer on imperial affairs and a leading intellectual of her political generation and, as the founder and principal organizer of the Rhodesian Responsible Government Association (RGA) in the period 1916-1922, she imported from Britain a singular political philosophy shaped by the Edwardian ideology of 'National Efficiency'. She played a central role in the achievement of responsible government in Southern Rhodesia in 1923, which set the territory's separate course outside the Union of South Africa. Notes, ref., sum. |