ISBN:
9781501332166
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (291 pages)
Series Statement:
Material Culture of Art and Design Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Dias, Rosie British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als British women and cultural practices of empire, 1770-1940
DDC:
305.409171241
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Großbritannien
;
Frau
;
Kolonie
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1770-1940
Abstract:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Colour Plates -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- British women and empire -- Practices and productions -- The pictorial arts and the female colonial gaze -- Producing empire -- Notes -- Part 1: Travel -- Chapter 1: The Travelling Eye: British Women in Early Nineteenth-Century India -- Writing home -- The female gaze -- India envisioned -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Paper Trails of Imperial Trav(a)ils: Janet Schaw's Journal of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina and Portugal, 1774-1776 -- Species -- Place -- Race -- Dress -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Sketches from the Gendered Frontier: Colonial Women's Images of Encounters with Aboriginal People in Australia, 1830s-1860s -- Absence in Tasmania -- Accommodation in South Australia -- War in far North Queensland -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part 2: Collecting -- Chapter 4: 'Of Manly Enterprise, and Female Taste!': Mina Malcolm's Cottage as Imperial Exhibition, c. 1790s-1970s -- Building the cottage -- A semi-public museum -- Commissioning and collecting -- From cottage to museum -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: A Lily of the Murray: Cultivating the Colonial Landscape through Album Assemblage -- Transplanting the language of flowers -- Cultivating a native picturesque -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Collecting the 'East': Women Travellers on the New 'Grand Tour' -- Annie Brassey: Voyage in the Sunbeam -- Annie Russell Cotes: Westward from the Golden Gate -- Nora Beatrice Gardner: Rifle and Spear with the Rajpoots -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part 3: Administering -- Chapter 7: Agents of Affect: Queen Victoria's Indian Gifts -- Imperial regalia? -- Exhibiting imperial bonds -- Notes
Abstract:
Chapter 8: 'Prime Minister in the Home Department': Female Gendered Identity in Colonial Upper Canada -- Beginnings -- Labours -- Arranging the genteel self -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Reconstructing the Lives of Professional Women in 1930s Zanzibar through Image, Object and Text -- Women at work in Zanzibar in the 1930s: Professionalism, gender and the colonial world -- Appointment to Zanzibar -- Wilson: Navigating Zanzibar's professional and social world -- Nicol Smith: Negotiating colonial Zanzibar as a 'lady curator' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Biliography -- Manuscript sources -- Periodicals and newspapers -- Printed sources -- Secondary sources -- Other sources -- Index
URL:
http://doi.org/10.5040/9781501332180?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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