Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820-1932

Tim Allender

ISBN 10: 0719085799 / ISBN 13: 9780719085796

Edité par Manchester University Press, 2016

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - WINNER of the Anne Bloomfield Triennial book prize awarded by the HES (UK) for best history of education book published between 2014 and 2017This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework the book examines the many life experiences of these women and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over this long period of study. Drawing on a rich documentary record from archives in the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, North America, Ireland and Australia this book builds a clear picture of the colonial-configured changes that influenced women interacting with the colonial state.In the early nineteenth century the role of some women occupying colonial spaces in India was to provide emotional sustenance to expatriate European males serving away from the moral strictures of Britain. However, powerful colonial statecraft intervened in the middle of the century to racialise these women and give them a new official, moral purpose. Only some females could be teachers, chosen by their race as reliable transmitters of genteel accomplishment codes of European, middle-class femininity.Yet colonial female activism also had impact when pressing against these revised, official gender constructions. New geographies of female medical care outreach emerged. Roman Catholic teaching orders, whose activism was sponsored by piety, sought out other female colonial peripheries, some of which the state was then forced to accommodate. Ultimately the national movement built its own gender thresholds of interchange, ignoring the unproductive colonial learning models for females, infected as these models had become with the broader race, class and gender agendas of a fading raj.This book will appeal to students and academics working on the history of empire and imperialism, gender studies, postcolonial studies and the history of education.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820-1932
• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0719085799
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780719085796
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 240 L x 161 H x 25 P (en millimètres) 240 millimètres de largeur par 161 millimètres de hauteur par 25 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 757 grammes

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Synopsis

Provides a unique longitudinal study of women in colonial India, examining their life experiences and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over more than a century of British rule.

À propos de l'auteur

Tim Allender is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney