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Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1820-1932 (Hardcover)
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Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1820-1932 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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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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