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.
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.
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
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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