Marie-Paule Ha

French Women and the Empire

The Case of Indochina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first book-length investigation of colonial gender politics in Third Republic France, using Indochina as a case study, charts women's experiences and activities to reveal a transformation in French views of empire: from colonial life as an exclusively male preserve to one where women's presence was seen as essential.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780199640362
• ISBN-10: 019964036X
• Artikelnr.: 40028665

Autorenporträt

Marie-Paule Ha has published widely in the areas of gender studies, colonial history, and diaspora studies. She is currently working on a sourcebook on French women and the empire and a study of the history of women and the Chinese diaspora in Vietnam.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Searching for Mme Donnadieu: Researching French Colonial Women's
History
* 2: Gender, Migration, and Empire
* 3: Mission Civilisatrice au Féminin: The Colonial Feminine Mystique
and the White Woman's Burden
* 4: Promoting Emigration to Indochina
* 5: Français d'Indochine
* 6: Poor, White, Single, and Female in the Colony
* 7: A Class of their Own: Professional Coloniales
* 8: Imperial Homemaking
* Conclusion