Gendered Transactions: The White Woman in Colonial India, c. 1820-1930 - Couverture rigide

Sen, Indrani

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 071908962X ISBN 13 : 9780719089626

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This book seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines missionary and memsahibs' colonial writings, both literary and non-literary, probing their construction of Indian women of different classes and regions, such as zenana women, peasants, ayahs and wet-nurses.

Also examined are delineations of European female health issues in male authored colonial medical handbooks, which underline the misogyny undergirding this discourse. Giving voice to the Indian woman, this book also scrutinises the fiction of the first generation of western-educated Indian women who wrote in English, exploring their construction of white women and their negotiations with colonial modernities.

This fascinating book will be of interest to the general reader and to experts and students of gender studies, colonial history, literary and cultural studies as well as the social history of health and medicine.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Indrani Sen is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 071908962X
• ISBN 13: 9780719089626
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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