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082 _a305.420954 SEN
100 1 _aSen, Indrani
245 1 0 _aGendered transactions :
_bthe white woman in colonial India, c. 1820-1930 /
_cIndrani Sen.
264 1 _aManchester :
_bManchester University Press,
_c2017.
300 _aix, 226 p. ;
_c25 cm.
490 0 _aStudies in imperialism
505 _a 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
650 0 _aWomen, White
_zIndia
_xSocial conditions
_y19th century.
650 0 _aWomen
_zIndia
_xSocial conditions
_y19th century.
650 0 _aWomen, White
_zIndia
_xSocial conditions
_y20th century.
650 0 _aWomen
_zIndia
_xSocial conditions
_y20th century.
830 0 _aStudies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
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