Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance[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 |
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Continguts
A Womans Trek | 19 |
Through Each Others Eyes | 35 |
The Passionate Nomad Reconsidered | 61 |
Crusader for Empire | 79 |
Chathams Pitts and Gladstones in Petticoats | 98 |
Cultural Missionaries Maternal Imperialists Feminist Allies | 119 |
The White Womans Burden | 137 |
Complicity and Resistance in the Writings of Flora Annie | 158 |
The White Womans Burden in the White Mans Grave | 177 |
Missionaries | 191 |
Give a Thought to Africa | 207 |
Shawls Jewelry Curry and Rice in Victorian Britain | 231 |
White Women in a Changing World | 247 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 269 |
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Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance Nupur Chaudhuri,Margaret Strobel Visualització de fragments - 1992 |
Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance Nupur Chaudhuri,Margaret Strobel Visualització de fragments - 1992 |
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