Cromer opposed women’s suffrage in Britain while invoking women’s rights to justify empire

Evidence

Yet, at home, this “champion” of Egyptian women’s rights worked feverishly to deny British women the right to vote as a founding member and president of the Men’s League for Opposing Women’s Suffrage. Even though the Victorian male establishment rejected feminism at home, it used the language developed in the domestic context in the service of colonialism. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 157

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lord Cromer championed Egyptian women’s rights while opposing British suffrage. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 165; Suffragists argued women’s rights would strengthen Britain’s empire — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 149; Imperial feminism weaponizes women’s rights rhetoric to justify colonial rule without improving women’s conditions — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 157 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial powers co-opted feminism to justify empire while opposing it at home #corroborates (0.88)
• Imperial feminism weaponizes women’s rights rhetoric to justify colonial rule without improving women’s conditions #corroborates (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 157
• Imperial feminism justifies conquest without improving colonized women’s conditions #corroborates (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 159
• Women’s rights rhetoric is selectively deployed to justify imperial interventions #corroborates (0.82)
• Feminist positioning becomes a justification for imperial invasion of Muslim lands. #corroborates (0.82) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 62
• Colonial feminism’s champions opposed women’s suffrage at home #expands (0.80)
• Colonial feminism used saving Muslim women to justify imperialism #corroborates (0.80)
• Victorian feminism was weaponized to justify colonial rule over Muslim societies #corroborates (0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 35
• Colonial refusal to reform women’s status mirrored metropolitan refusal to grant women rights #expands (0.78) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 1085
• Liberal rights discourse has historically justified rather than opposed empire #expands (0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 72
• War-on-terror rhetoric recruits women’s rights to justify imperial conquest #expands (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 210
• White suffragists used saving Muslim women to justify their own claims to British rights #expands (0.75)
• Feminist activists are as implicated in empire as soldiers are #expands (0.72) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 65