Indrani Sen

Gendered transactions

The white woman in colonial India, c. 1820-1930

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores Indian gender issues through diverse sources including letters, memoirs, fiction, housekeeping manuals, and forgotten texts from the colonial archives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9781526143488
• ISBN-10: 1526143488
• Artikelnr.: 55800027

Autorenporträt

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