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Women of Empire - Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in India and the U.S. West (Hardcover)
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Women of Empire - Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in India and the U.S. West (Hardcover)
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In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up
his expectations for his new bride: ""You will remember you are not
in command of anything except the cook."" Although their roles were
circumscribed, the wives of army officers stationed in British
India and the U.S. West commanded considerable influence, as Verity
McInnis reveals in this comparative study of two female populations
in two global locations. Women of Empire adds a previously
unexplored dimension to our understanding of the connections
between gender and imperialism in the nineteenth century. McInnis
examines the intersections of class, race, and gender to reveal
social spaces where female identity and power were both contested
and constructed. Officers' wives often possessed the authority to
direct and maintain the social, cultural, and political ambitions
of empire. By transferring and adapting white middle-class cultural
values and customs to military installations, they created a new
social reality - one that restructured traditional boundaries. In
both the British and American territorial holdings, McInnis shows,
military wives held pivotal roles, creating and controlling the
processes that upheld national aims. In so doing, these women
feminized formal and informal military practices in ways that
strengthened their own status and identities. Despite the
differences between rigid British social practices and their less
formal American counterparts, military women in India and the U.S.
West followed similar trajectories as they designed and maintained
their imperial identity. Redefining the officer's wife as a power
holder and an active contributor to national prestige, Women of
Empire opens a new, nuanced perspective on the colonial experience
- and on the complex nexus of gender, race, and imperial practice.
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