Western Women and Imperialism Complicity and Resistance [Paperback]

[Western Women and Imperialism] provides fascinating insights into interactions and attitudes between western and non-western women, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is an important contribution to the field of womens studies and (primarily British) imperial history, in that many of the essays explore problems of cross-cultural interaction that have been heretofore ignored. Nancy Fix Anderson

A challenging anthology in which a multiplicity of authors sheds new light on the waves of missionaries, 'memsahibs,' nursesand feminists. Ms.

... a long-overdue engagement with colonial discourse and feminism.... excellent essays... The Years Work in Critical Cultural Theory

NUPUR CHAUDHURI, who teaches at Texas Southern University, is the coeditor of Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance,
and coeditor of a special issue on Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality: National and Global Perspectives for the National Women's Studies Journal. She has written extensively on gender and imperialism and her articles have appeared in Journal of Women's History, Women's History Review, and Victorian Studies. MARGARET STROBEL, Professor of Womens Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is author of Muslim Women in Mombasa, 18901975, co-winner of the Herskovits Prize, and European Women and the Second British Empire. She is co-editor (with Sarah Mirza) of Three Swahili Women: Life Histories from Mombasa, Kenya, published in Swahili and English.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION

IMAGES OF ONE ANOTHER

A Womens Trek
What Difference Does Gender Make?
Susan L. Blake

Through Each Others Eyes
The Impact on the Colonial Encounter of the Images of Egyptian, Levantine-Egyptian, and European Women, 1862-1920
Mervat Hatem

IMPERIAL POLITICS

The Passionate Nomad Reconsidered
A European Woman in LAlgerie francaise (Isabelle Eberhardt, 1877-1904)
Julia Clancy-Smith