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Book SynopsisExplores what Western women did, thought, and felt in and about the colonies in Africa and India, areas that have been presented, both at the time and in subsequent scholarship, as 'no place for a white woman'. This title analyzes Western women's complicity in the cultural values dominant during an imperialist era.
Trade Review"Western Women and Imperialism provides fascinating insights into interactions and attitudes between western and non-western women, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is an important contribution to the field of women's studies and (primarily British) imperial history, in that many of the essays explore problems of cross-cultural interaction that have been heretofore ignored." Nancy Fix Anderson "A challenging anthology in which a multiplicity of authors sheds new light on the waves of missionaries, 'memsahibs,' nurses - and feminists." Ms. "... a long-overdue engagement with colonial discourse and feminism... excellent essays ..." The Year's Work in Critical Cultural Theory
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
IMAGES OF ONE ANOTHER
A Women's Trek
What Difference Does Gender Make?
Susan L. Blake
Through Each Other's Eyes
The Impact on the Colonial Encounter of the Images of Egyptian, Levantine-Egyptian, and European Women, 1862-1920
Mervat Hatem
IMPERIAL POLITICS
The Passionate Nomad Reconsidered
A European Woman in L'Algerie francaise (Isabelle Eberhardt, 1877-1904)
Julia Clancy-Smith
Crusader for Empire
Flora Shaw/Lady Lugard
Helen Callaway and Dorothy O Helly
Chathams, Pitts, and Gladstones in Petticoats
The Politics of Gender and Race in the Illbert Bill Controversy, 1883-1884
Mrinalini Sinha
ALLIES, MATERNAL IMPERIALISTS, AND ACTIVISTS
Cultural Missionaries, Maternal Imperialists, Feminist Allies
British Women Activists in India, 1865-1945
Barbara N. Ramusack
The White Woman's Burden
British Feminists and The Indian Woman 1865-1915
Antoinette M. Burton
Complicity and Resistance in the Writings of Flora Annie Steel and Annie Besant
Nancy L. Paxton
The White Woman's Burden in the White Man's Grave
The Introduction of British Nurses in Colonial West Africa
Dea Birkett
MISSIONARIES
A New Humanity
American Missionaries' Ideals for Women in North India, 1870-1930
Leslie A. Flemming
Give a Thought to Africa
Black Women Missionaries in Southern Africa
Sylvia M. Jacobs
WIVES AND INCORPORATED WOMEN
Shawls, Jewelry, Curry, and Rice in Victorian Britain
Nupur Chaudhuri
White Women in a Changing World
Employment, Voluntary Work, and Sex in Post-World War II Northern Rhodesia
Karen Tranberg Hansen
CONTRIBUTORS
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