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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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Journal Article•
TL;DR: The British used the particular form which gender divisions took in India as a vehicle for proving their liberality, as a demonstration of their superiority, and as a legitimation of their rule.
Abstract: The British used the particular form which gender divisions took in India as a vehicle for proving their liberality, as a demonstration of their superiority, and as a legitimation of their rule. They signally failed to understand the particular form of male supremacy in their own culture, or to analyse how they treated and reinforced aspects of male oppression within Indian culture, seeing no parallels between the different cultural forms of male dominance in the two countries.
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: This article examined representations of India in the 19th-century media and provided analyses of a representative sampling of contemporary media publications produced in India as well as in Britain between 1840 and 1900.
Abstract: This collection of twelve original essays is the first concerted attempt to examine representations of India in the 19th-century media. It offers analyses of a representative sampling of contemporary media publications produced in India as well as in Britain between 1840 and 1900. The result contributes to ongoing analyses of the complex cultural relations between metropole and periphery in imperial systems.
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10 May 2002
TL;DR: Fernyhough et al. as discussed by the authors discuss the relationship between women and the colonial gaze in the early 19th century and discuss the role of women in women empowerment and victimology.
Abstract: Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Women and the Colonial Gaze T.L.Hunt PART I: COLONIALISM WITHIN EUROPE Cartimandua, Boudicca, and Rebellion: British Queens and Roman Colonial Views J.Crawford Between Whipping and Slavery: Double Jeopardy Against Mudejar Women in Medieval Spain I.B.O'Connor Greece in Chains: Philhellenism to the Rescue of a Damsel in Distress K.E.Fleming Wild Irish Women: Gender, Politics and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century T.L.Hunt PART II: COLONIALISM IN THE AMERICAS French Views of Native American Women in the Early Modern Era: The Tupinamba of Brazil L.Fishman Women as Symbols of Disorder in Early Rhode Island R.W.Herndon Native Women and State Legislation in Mexico and Canada: The Agrarian Law and the Indian Act V.V.Garcia The 'Male City' of Havana: The Coexisting Logics of Colonialism, Slavery and Patriarchy in Nineteenth-Century Cuba L.Martinez-Fernandez Imperial Eyes, Gendered Views: Concepcion Gimeno Re-writes the Aztecs at the End of the Nineteenth Century C.Ramos-Escandon PART III: COLONIALISM IN ASIA AND AFRICA The Indian Other: Reactions of Two Anglo-Indian Women Travel Writers, Eliza Fay and A.U. N.Chaudhuri Image and Reality: Indian Women, Colonial and Post-Colonial Discourse on Empowerment and Victimology K.Ray Civilizing Women: French Colonial Perceptions of Vietnamese Womenhood and Motherhood M.R.Lessard Social Construction of Idealized Images of Women in Colonial Korea: the 'New Woman' versus 'Motherhood': J.Shin Education for Liberation or Domestication? Female Education in Colonial Swaziland M.Z.Booth Women, Gender History, and Imperial Ethiopia T.Fernyhough & A.Fernyhough Endnotes Index
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