Women and the Colonial Gaze [Paperback]

Women and the Colonial Gaze examines the way images of women have been used by colonizers and subject peoples to define the colonial relationship.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 IndexMARGARET ZOLLER BOOTH Assistant Professor, Programme of Educational Foundations and Inquiry, Bowling Green State University, OhioNAPUR CHAUDHURI Assistant Professor, TexlC5