Tim Allender

Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820-1932 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Severn House
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784996369
• Artikelnr.: 44367019

Autorenporträt

Tim Allender is a Professor at the University of Sydney

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Finding feminine scholars
1820-64 2. Shaping a new Eurasian moral body
1840-67 3. Mary Carpenter and feminine 'rescue' from Europe
1866-77 4. Both sides of the mission wall
1875-84 5. Female medical care: the creation of a new professional learning space
1865-90 6. Feminine missionary medical professionalism and secular medical feminists
1880-1927 7. Code School accomplishments and Froebel: new boundaries concerning race and pedagogy
1883-1903 8. 'Better mothers': feminine and feminist educators and thresholds of female interaction
1870-1932 9. Loreto and the paradigm of piety
1890-1932 Conclusion Index