Home and harem : nation, gender, empire, and the cultures of travel

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Home and harem : nation, gender, empire, and the cultures of travel

Inderpal Grewal

Leicester University Press, 1996

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-279) and index

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ISBN 9780718500634

Description

This interdisciplinary study examines how the narratives and discourses of travel reveal the ways in which the colonial encounter created linked, yet distinct, constructs of nation and gender. It explores the impact of this encounter on English and Indian men and women. Looking at England, the author draws on 19th-century aesthetics, landscape art and debates about women's suffrage and working-class education, in order to show how all social classes, not only the privileged, were educated and influenced by imperialist travel narratives. By examining different forms of Indian travel to the West and focusing on forms of modernity offered by colonial notions of travel, she explores how Indian men and women appropriated aspects of European travel discourse, particularly the set of oppositions between self and other, East and West, home and abroad.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 English imperial culture: home and harem - domesticity
  • gender and nationalism
  • empire and the movement for women's suffrage in Britain
  • the guidebook and the museum. Part 2 Euroimperial travel and Indian women: the culture of travel and the gendering of colonial modernity in 19th-century India
  • Pandita Ramabai and Parvati Athavale - homes for women
  • feminism and nationalism.
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: pbk ISBN 9780718500641

Description

This interdisciplinary study examines how the narratives and discourses of travel reveal the ways in which the colonial encounter created linked, yet distinct, constructs of nation and gender. It explores the impact of this encounter on English and Indian men and women. Looking at England, the author draws on 19th-century aesthetics, landscape art and debates about women's suffrage and working-class education, in order to show how all social classes, not only the privileged, were educated and influenced by imperialist travel narratives. By examining different forms of Indian travel to the West and focusing on forms of modernity offered by colonial notions of travel, she explores how Indian men and women appropriated aspects of European travel discourse, particularly the set of oppositions between self and other, East and West, home and abroad.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 English imperial culture: home and harem - domesticity
  • gender and nationalism
  • empire and the movement for women's suffrage in Britain
  • the guidebook and the museum. Part 2 Euroimperial travel and Indian women: the culture of travel and the gendering of colonial modernity in 19th-century India
  • Pandita Ramabai and Parvati Athavale - homes for women
  • feminism and nationalism.

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