Gendered transactions : the white woman in colonial India, c. 1820-1930
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Gendered transactions : the white woman in colonial India, c. 1820-1930
(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)
Manchester University Press, 2019, c2017
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-222) and index
"First published by Manchester University Press in hardback 2017. This edition first published 2019"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Gendered transactions seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines missionary and memsahibs' colonial writings, both literary and non-literary, probing their construction of Indian women of different classes and regions, such as zenana women, peasants, ayahs and wet-nurses.
Also examined are delineations of European female health issues in male authored colonial medical handbooks, which underline the misogyny undergirding this discourse. Giving voice to the Indian woman, this book also scrutinises the fiction of the first generation of western-educated Indian women who wrote in English, exploring their construction of white women and their negotiations with colonial modernities. -- .
Table of Contents
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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