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Women becoming professionals: British secular reformers and missionaries in Colonial India, 1870-1900.
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TL;DR: Vibert et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the development of these roles in the missionary and secular philanthropic communities and how these women used periodicals as a space to implicitly demonstrate their competence and explicitly argue for their status as educators and medical workers.
Abstract: Supervisory Committee Dr. Elizabeth Vibert, (Department of History) Supervisor Dr. Lynne Marks, (Department of History) Departmental Member This paper discusses the means by which some British women created professional roles for themselves out of their philanthropic work in India between 1880 and 1900. I examine the development of these roles in the missionary and secular philanthropic communities and how these women used periodicals as a space to implicitly demonstrate their competence and explicitly argue for their status as educators and medical workers. Colonial India provided a particular context of imperial ideals and gendered realities: Indian women were believed to be particularly deprived of learning, medical care and ―civilisation‖ by custom and culture, and Englishwomen could call on the rhetoric of imperial duty to legitimise their care of these disadvantaged women. I argue that India provided the means for British women to demonstrate their capabilities and to involve themselves in the ongoing nineteenth-century project to incorporate women into previously masculine professional societies.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the rhetoric of English India has been studied in the context of the history of European ideas, and the rhetoric has been analyzed in terms of English-to-Indians.
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TL;DR: In this article, gender, sex, and subordination in England 1500-1800 are discussed in the context of a review of new books: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 117-118.
Abstract: (1997). Gender, Sex and Subordination in England 1500–1800. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 117-118.
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TL;DR: This article explored a fascinating but neglected field of English letters: those books written by British men and women about their experiences in the Indian subcontinent, from the period when the East India Company began consolidating its powers to the eve of the Mutiny.
Abstract: Readers are invited to explore a fascinating but neglected field of English letters: those books written by British men and women about their experiences in the Indian subcontinent, from the period when the East India Company began consolidating its powers to the eve of the Mutiny. The texts form a part of the great surge of travel literature which accompanied the commerical and political expansion of the British people.
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TL;DR: In the Introduction to his lectures on the modern British missionary movement published in 1965, Max Warren suggested that "any serious student of modern history must find some explanation of the missionary expansion of the Christian Church".
Abstract: In the Introduction to his lectures on the modern British missionary movement published in 1965, Max Warren suggested that “any serious student of modern history must find some explanation of the missionary expansion of the Christian Church.” Many, perhaps most, scholars have ignored his advice, and until very recently, it would have been difficult to persuade researchers in the modern academic mainstream to take such an injunction seriously, so flatly would it have seemed to contradict or question the dominant assumptions of liberal, secular scholarship. The progress of an all-pervasive secularization meant that missions, if not the churches both that supported them and that they hoped to build, were to be listed amongst history's losers and were therefore unattractive subjects for study.
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TL;DR: This article found that the true end of the education of women is making good wives and mothers, and such assertions can be found scattered through the writings and speeches of almost all the nineteenth-century commentators on the education for women.
Abstract: “The true end of the education of women,” said a writer in the Contemporary Review in 1866, “is making good wives and mothers,” and similar assertions can be found scattered through the writings and speeches of almost all the nineteenth-century commentators on the education of women. On the face of it, one would assume that those expressing this view were unequivocally committed to the definitions of femininity of their period, either the domestic ideology of the first half of the century or the social Darwinism of the period after 1870, and therefore belonged to a conservative wing of the movement for the education of women. Yet this statement of their aims can be found in the writings of the whole spectrum of those interested in educational change: protofeminists like Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Davies, comparative conservatives like Hannah More and Dorothea Beale, those defined by Sara Delamont as separatists who wanted to develop a specifically female curriculum and academic structure, and those she calls uncompromising who wanted to make the girls' curriculum identical with the boys’.
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