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Gendered Transactions: The White Woman in Colonial India, C. 1820-1930

Gendered Transactions: The White Woman in Colonial India, C. 1820-1930

Sen, Indrani

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Series: Studies in Imperialism, Book 145

General Gender StudiesGeneral Political ScienceIndian & South Asian History

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ISBN10: 071908962X
ISBN13: 9780719089626
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Feb 21 2017
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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