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Gendered transactions : the white woman in colonial India, c. 1820-1930 /
Sen, Indrani
Gendered transactions : the white woman in colonial India, c. 1820-1930 / Indrani Sen. - ix, 226 p. ; 25 cm. - Studies in imperialism . - Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England) .
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
9780719089626 071908962X
2017304094
Women, White--Social conditions--India--19th century.
Women--Social conditions--India--19th century.
Women, White--Social conditions--India--20th century.
Women--Social conditions--India--20th century.
305.420954 SEN
Gendered transactions : the white woman in colonial India, c. 1820-1930 / Indrani Sen. - ix, 226 p. ; 25 cm. - Studies in imperialism . - Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England) .
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
9780719089626 071908962X
2017304094
Women, White--Social conditions--India--19th century.
Women--Social conditions--India--19th century.
Women, White--Social conditions--India--20th century.
Women--Social conditions--India--20th century.
305.420954 SEN