ABSTRACT

British counterinsurgency thinking today remains strongly influenced by the Malaya Emergency (1948–1960) but little-known is the extensive women’s outreach program, pioneered by Lady Templer, involving the Women’s Institute and British Red Cross. Through discourse analysis of archival records, this article identifies four discourses characterizing British women’s participation, used, at the time, to make acceptable their presence whilst distancing them from the counterinsurgency campaign. By exploring how women’s presence has been negotiated and marginalized, I will reveal the blurred boundaries of counterinsurgency, questioning how the role of the counterinsurgent is constructed and sustained over time and for what purpose.

摘要

今天的英国平叛思想仍然受到马来亚紧急状态（1948-1960）的强烈影响，但是鲜为人知的是广泛的妇女宣传计划，该计划由邓普勒夫人发起，涉及妇女研究所和英国红十字会。通过对档案记录的话语分析，本文确定了四种表征英国妇女参与的话语，当时这些话语用于使英国妇女参与其中，同时又使她们远离平叛运动。通过探讨如何协商和边缘化妇女的存在，我将揭示平叛的界限模糊，并质疑如何随着时间的推移而建立和维持平叛者的作用，以及其目的是什么。