Western Women and Imperialism

Ò[Western Women and Imperialism] provides fascinating insights into interactions and attitudes between western and non-western women, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is an important contribution to the field of women's studies and (primarily British) imperial history, in that many of the essays explore problems of cross-cultural interaction that have been heretofore ignored.Ó ÑNancy Fix AndersonThis volume explores what Western women did, thought, and felt in and about the colonies in Africa and India, areas that have been presented, both at the time and in subsequent scholarship, as Òno place for a white woman.Ó The authors analyze Western women's complicity in, as well as their resistance to, the cultural values dominant during an imperialist era. They juxtapose feminists and social reformers of varying stripes with pro-imperialist women of different levels, thereby offering insights into the workings of race and class ideologies within imperialism. The essays reveal the diversity of voices, assumptions, and understandings of empire represented by activist women who used the impliedÑand sometimes explicitÑpower of race and class to negotiate their own agenda within the colonial scene.

NUPUR CHAUDHURI, who teaches at Texas Southern University, is the coeditor of Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance,and coeditor of a special issue on "Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality: National and Global Perspectives" for the National Women's Studies Journal. She has written extensively on gender and imperialism and her articles have appeared in Journal of Women's History, Women's History Review, and Victorian Studies. MARGARET STROBEL, Professor of Women's Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is author of Muslim Women in Mombasa, 1890--1975, co-winner of the Herskovits Prize, and European Women and the Second British Empire. She is co-editor (with Sarah Mirza) of Three Swahili Women: Life Histories from Mombasa, Kenya, published in Swahili and English.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

1

(18)

Images of One Another

A Woman's Trek

19

(16)

What Difference Does Gender Make?

Susan L. Blake

Through Each Other's Eyes

35

(26)

The Impact on the Colonial Encounter of the Images of Egyptian, Levantine-Egyptian, and European Women, 1862--1920

Mervat Hatem

Imperial Politics

The ``Passionate Nomad'' Reconsidered

61

(18)

A European Woman in L'Algerie francaise (Isabelle Eberhardt, 1877--1904)

Julia Clancy-Smith

Crusader for Empire

79

(19)

Flora Shaw/Lady Lugard

Helen Callaway

Dorothy O. Helly

``Chathams, Pitts, and Gladstones in Petticoats''

98

(21)

The Politics of Gender and Race in the Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883--1884

Mrinalini Sinha

Allies, Maternal Imperialists, and Activists

Cultural Missionaries, Maternal Imperialists, Feminist Allies

119

(18)

British Women Activists in India, 1865--1945

Barbara N. Ramusack

The White Woman's Burden

137

(21)

British Feminists and ``The Indian Woman,'' 1865--1915

Antoinette M. Burton

Complicity and Resistance in the Writings of Flora Annie Steel and Annie Besant

158

(19)

Nancy L. Paxton

The ``White Woman's Burden'' in the ``White Man's Grave''

177

(14)

The Introduction of British Nurses in Colonial West Africa

Dea Birkett

Missionaries

A New Humanity

191

(16)

American Missionaries' Ideals for Women in North India, 1870--1930

Leslie A. Flemming

Give a Thought to Africa

207

(24)

Black Women Missionaries in Southern Africa

Sylvia M. Jacobs

Wives and ``Incorporated Women''

231

(38)

Shawls, Jewelry, Curry, and Rice in Victorian Britian

Nupur Chaudhuri

White Women in a Changing World

247

(22)

Employment, Voluntary Work, and Sex in Post-World War II Northern Rhodesia

Karen Tranberg Hansen

Contributors

269

(3)

Index

272

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