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Preface. Acknowledgements. List of abbreviations. 1. Woman, ideology, empire: inventing the white woman in nineteenth-century British India. 2. Statis, Bibis, Purdahnashins: Anglo-India and the Indian woman. 3. Gender and 'Imperial citizenship': nineteenth-century British Raj fiction. 4. (Re)presenting Chivalric rescue: the novels of Philip Meadows Taylor. 5. Gender and the white (Wo)man's Burden: Flora Annie Steel. 6. Imagining (Anglo) India: Rudyard Kipling and ...
Human rights belong to everyone, yet horrific violations occur on a daily basis against women in homes, workplaces, communities and civic institutions. In many countries, abuses are as blatant as withholding women’s legal rights under the law, including the right to hold down a job, own or inherit property and to seek protection from violence. Countries that respect human rights are more politically stable and economically competitive than those that ...
The white women of colonial India wrote extensively. During their years of residence in this country, these women were prolific; they maintained journals and diaries, wrote letters home, authored novels and penned their memoirs. This anthology brings together a fascinating collection of such European women's narratives written over 1820s-1920s. The writers came from all walks of life: 'memsahibs' of colonial administrators' wives, journalists, evangelists, ...