ISBN:
9780230523418
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (267 pages)
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DDC:
305.4
Keywords:
Women-Colonization
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Women and the Colonial Gaze examines the way images of women have been used by colonizers and subject peoples to define the colonial relationship. Unique features include essays on pre-modern imperialism, colonization within Europe, imperialism by non-European powers, and intellectual imperialism by authors and scholars. These essays suggest that gender's use as a tool in the imperialist context is much older and more comprehensive than previously suggested. Using methodology drawn from several scholarly disciplines, the essays encourage comparative assessment of gender and imperialism.
Abstract:
Cover -- Women and the Colonial Gaze -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Colonialism within Europe -- 1 Cartimandua, Boudicca, and Rebellion: British Queens and Roman Colonial Views -- 2 Between Whipping and Slavery: Double Jeopardy against Mudejar Women in Medieval Spain -- 3 Greece in Chains: Philhellenism to the Rescue of a Damsel in Distress -- 4 Wild Irish Women: Gender, Politics, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century -- Part II Colonialism in the Americas -- 5 French Views of Native American Women in the Early Modern Era: The Tupinamba of Brazil -- 6 Women as Symbols of Disorder in Early Rhode Island -- 7 Native Women and State Legislation in Mexico and Canada: The Agrarian Law and the Indian Act -- 8 The "Male City" of Havana: The Coexisting Logics of Colonialism, Slavery, and Patriarchy in Nineteenth-Century Cuba -- 9 Imperial Eyes, Gendered Views: Concepción Gimeno Re-writes the Aztecs at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- Part III Colonialism in Asia and Africa -- 10 The Indian Other: Reactions of Two Anglo-Indian Women Travel Writers, Eliza Fay and A.U. -- 11 Image and Reality: Indian Diaspora Women, Colonial and Post-colonial Discourse on Empowerment and Victimology -- 12 Civilizing Women: French Colonial Perceptions of Vietnamese Womanhood and Motherhood -- 13 Social Construction of Idealized Images of Women in Colonial Korea: the "New Woman" versus "Motherhood" -- 14 Education for Liberation or Domestication? Female Education in Colonial Swaziland -- 15 Women, Gender History, and Imperial Ethiopia -- Notes -- Index.
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