Gendered transactions : The white woman in colonial India, c 1820-1930

By:

Sen Indra

Contributor(s):

Publication details: London Manchester University Press 2017Description: 226pISBN:

9780719089626

Subject(s):

1. Women - Social Conditions - India

DDC classification:

305.420954 SEN

Contents:

Content: Introduction Part I: The white woman and the 'civilising mission'; 1. The missionary 'gaze' and the 'civilising mission': zenana encounters in nineteenth-century Bengal; 2. Flora Annie, social reform and female education in late nineteenth-century Punjab; 3. Returning the 'gaze': colonial encounters in Indian women's English writings in late nineteenth-century western India Part II: Colonial domesticity, white women's health and gender disadvantage; 4. The ambivalences of power inside the colonial home: memsahibs, ayahs and wet nurses; 5. Marginalising the memsahib: the white woman's health issues in colonial medical writings; 6. The colonial 'female malady': European women's mental health and addiction in the late nineteenth century; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index

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Content:
Introduction Part I: The white woman and the 'civilising mission';
1. The missionary 'gaze' and the 'civilising mission': zenana encounters in nineteenth-century
Bengal;
2. Flora Annie, social reform and female education in late nineteenth-century Punjab;
3. Returning the 'gaze': colonial encounters in Indian women's English writings in late nineteenth-century western India Part II: Colonial domesticity, white women's health and gender disadvantage;
4. The ambivalences of power inside the colonial home: memsahibs, ayahs and wet nurses;
5. Marginalising the memsahib: the white woman's health issues in colonial medical writings;
6. The colonial 'female malady': European women's mental health and addiction in the late nineteenth century;
Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index

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