From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912-1982The first book on women's political history in Belize, From Colony to Nation demonstrates that women were creators of and activists within the two principal political currents of twentieth century Belize: colonial middle class reform and popular labor nationalism. As such, their alliances and struggles with colonial administrators, male reformers, and nationalists and with one another were central to the emergence of this improbable nation state. From