Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance (A Midland Book)

Explores what Western women did, thought, and felt in and about the colonies in Africa and India, areas that have been presented, both at the time and in subsequent scholarship, as 'no place for a white woman'. This title analyzes Western women's complicity in the cultural values dominant during an imperialist era. A Woman's Trek : What Difference Does Gender Make? / Susan L. Blake -- Through Each Other's Eyes : The Impact Of The Colonial Encounter Of The Images Of Egyptian, Levantine-egyptian, And European Women, 1862-1920 / Mervat Hatem -- The Passionate Nomad Reconsidered : A European Woman In L'algérie Française (isabelle Eberhardt, 1877-1904) / Julia Clancy-smith -- Crusader For Empire : Flora Shaw/lady Lugard / Helen Callaway And Dorothy O. Helly -- Chathams, Pitts, And Gladstones In Petticoats : The Politics Of Gender And Race In The Ilbert Bill Controvery, 1883-1884 / Mrinalini Sinha -- Cultural Missionaries, Maternal Imperialists, Feminist Allies : British Women Activits In India, 1865-1945 / Barbara N. Ramusack -- The White Woman's Burden : British Feminists And The Indian Woman, 1865-1915 / Antoinette M. Burton -- Complicity And Resistance In The Writings Of Flora Annie Steel And Annie Besant / Nancy L. Paxton -- (cont.) The White Woman's Burden In The White Man's Grave : The Introduction Of British Nurses In Colonial West Africa / Dea Birkett -- A New Humanity : American Missionaries' Ideals For Women In North India, 1870-1930 / Leslie A. Flemming -- Give A Thought To Africa : Black Women Missionaries In Southern Africa / Sylvia M. Jacobs -- Shawls, Jewelry, Curry, And Rice In Victorian Britain / Nupur Chaudhuri -- White Women In A Changing World : Employment, Voluntary Work, And Sex In Post-world War Ii Northern Rhodesia / Karen Tranberg Hansen. Edited By Nupur Chaudhuri And Margaret Strobel. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "[ 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,' nursesand feminists." Ms. ". . . a long-overdue engagement with colonial discourse and feminism. . . . excellent essays . . ." The Year's Work in Critical Cultural Theory