Explores Indian gender issues through diverse sources including letters, memoirs, fiction, housekeeping manuals, and forgotten texts from the colonial archives.
Explores Indian gender issues through diverse sources including letters, memoirs, fiction, housekeeping manuals, and forgotten texts from the colonial archives.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Indrani Sen is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG i.I. Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
