Gendered transactions
The white woman in colonial India, c.1820–1930
Series edited by Andrew S. Thompson, Indrani Sen
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Author Biography
Indrani Sen is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University
Manchester University Press
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date February 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719089626 / 071908962X
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 75 GBP
- Pages264
- ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 x 156 mm
- Biblio NotesIntroduction Part I: The white woman and the 'civilising mission' 1. The missionary 'gaze' and the 'civilising mission': zenana encounters in nineteenth-century Bengal 2. Flora Annie, social reform and female education in late nineteenth-century Punjab 3. Returning the 'gaze': colonial encounters in Indian women's English writings in late nineteenth-century western India Part II: Colonial domesticity, white women's health and gender disadvantage 4. The ambivalences of power inside the colonial home: memsahibs, ayahs and wet nurses 5. Marginalising the memsahib: the white woman's health issues in colonial medical writings 6. The colonial 'female malady': European women's mental health and addiction in the late nineteenth century Conclusion Select bibliography Index
- SeriesStudies in Imperialism