The white woman's other burden : Western women and South Asia during British colonial rule

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The white woman's other burden : Western women and South Asia during British colonial rule

Kumari Jayawardena

Routledge, 1995

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-302) and index

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ISBN 9780415911047

Description

In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Madeleine Slade, and Mirra Richard and highlights the stories of dozens of women whose names have been forgotten today. In the course of this telling, Jayawardena raises the issues of race, class, and gender which are part of current debates among feminists throughout the world.

Table of Contents

  • 1. The Noble and the Ignoble White Women as Goddesses and Devils
  • Part I: Saving the Sisters from the Sacred Cows - Christianity and "Civilization:" 2. The Imagined Sisterhood of Women
  • 3. Christianity and the "Westernized Oriental Gentlewoman
  • " 4. Goiing for the Jugular of Hindu Patriarchy American Women Fund-Raisers for Ramabai
  • Part II: Mothering India - Women Social Reformers from the West: 5. Radical and Secular Reformers
  • 6. The Medicine Women The Struggles of Western and South Asian Women Doctors
  • 7. "Children of Children" The Child Marriage Controversies and India
  • Part III: "Consolation in an Alien Society" - Women Theosophists and Orientalists: 8. "The Light of Asia" or "Hooey from the Orient"?
  • 9. "Sandals in India and Shoes in the West" Annie Besant's "Passage to India"
  • 10. From London's West End to Jaffna Florence Farr as George Bernard Shaw's "New Woman"
  • 11. "Blazing the Trail for Indian Women's Freedom" Margaret Cousins in India
  • 12. "O Free Indeed! O Gloriously Free" W
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: pbk ISBN 9780415911054

Description

In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Madeleine Slade, and Mirra Richard and highlights the stories of dozens of women whose names have been forgotten today. In the course of this telling, Jayawardena raises the issues of race, class, and gender which are part of current debates among feminists throughout the world.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction the Noble and the Ignoble
  • I: Saving the Sisters from the Sacred Cows
  • 1: The Imagined Sisterhood of Women
  • 2: Christianity and the "Westernized Oriental Gentlewoman"
  • 3: Going for the Jugular of Hindu Patriarchy
  • II: Mothering India
  • 4: Radical And Secular Reformers
  • 5: The Medicine Women
  • 6: Children of Children
  • III: "Consolation in an Alien Society"
  • 7: "The Light of Asia" or "Hooey from the Orient"?
  • 8: "Sandals in India and Shoes in the West"
  • 9: From London's West end to Jaffna
  • 10: "Blazing the Trail for Indian Women's Freedom"
  • 11: "O Free Indeed! O Gloriously Free"
  • IV: White Women in Search of Black Gods
  • 12: Western Holy Mothers as Soul Mates of Indian Gurus
  • 13: Irish Rebellion and "Muscular Hinduism"
  • 14: From Admiral's House to Gandhi's Ashram
  • 15: The "Jewish Mother" of Pondicherry
  • V: Comrades in Arms
  • 16: Women and Revolution
  • 17: Comrade or Evil Temptress?
  • 18: Red Flags in the Emerald Isle
  • col: Conclusion an Asian Feminist Gaze

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