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1 online resource (xvi, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in imperialism
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Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
A unique longitudinal study of women in colonial India, this book examines their life experiences and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over more than a century of British rule. |
| Contents |
Cover; Series information; Title page; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Preface; List of abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction: learning femininity in colonial India, 1820-1932; The book's female subjects; The book's theoretical framework; The subaltern legacy and women in India; Gender, education and the 'white' empire; Knowledge transfer; Eurasians, accomplishments and the state; Eurasians; Accomplishments; Multifaceted and changing colonial governance in India; Women teachers and the state; The book's content; Notes; Chapter One Finding feminine scholars, 1820-65. |
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The Indian householdThe European household; Importing new evangelical mission-inspired femininity; Authorising the new missionary learning space; The new CMS female learner; How to teach in Bengal; The 'orientalism' of the North Western Provinces and Bombay; What to teach the girls?; Many centres; Female 'infanticide' in north India; Funding and language; Notes; Chapter Two Shaping a new Eurasian moral body, 1840-67; Soldier fathers; Building asylums; State anxieties; The Lawrence military asylums; Impoverished Eurasians and the Indian female poor. |
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Governance from the metropole: Wood's Education Despatch, 1854Notes; Chapter Three Mary Carpenter and feminine 'rescue' from Europe, 1866-77; From England; Mary Carpenter; Travelling in India; Foreshadowing her plan; New visibility; Implementing her scheme; India's colonial schoolgirl; The NWP and Bombay: continuing schoolgirl endeavours; Surveillance by inspectresses; Scandal at Nagpur; Notes; Chapter Four Both sides of the mission wall, 1875-84; The mission network; Inside the mission compound; New communities; Three key female missionary sites: Delhi, Palamcottah and Lucknow. |
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Outside the mission compoundThe zenanas; Notes; Chapter Five Female medical care: a new professional learning space, 1865-90; Male medicine; Curing for Christ; Unclean heathens; Secular medical activism: new networks with England; Notes; Chapter six Feminine missionary medical professionalism and secular medical feminists, 1880-1927; Male medical colleges; New knowledge; Midwives; State 'training' by gender; Hospital work; Feminist intervention; Missionary status; Broadening the field: nursing and midwifery; The memsahib nurse; The leper asylum; Meeting new demand after the First World War. |
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The enduring missionary medical hegemonyNotes; Chapter seven Code school accomplishments and Froebel: race and pedagogy, 1883-1903; Favoured Eurasians; 'The Code'; Middle-class girls; New schools; Doveton and Martinière; A spatial West; Accomplishments; Constructing the racial teacher; Kindergarten and the Kurseong Female Teacher Training College; Llian Brock, Elinor Green and the Welland school; Isabel Brander: new model teacher; Notes; Chapter eight 'Better mothers': feminine and feminist educators and thresholds of Indian female interaction, 1870-1932. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Femininity -- India -- History -- 19th century.
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Femininity. |
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India. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Femininity -- India -- History -- 20th century.
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20th century |
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Sex role -- India -- History -- 19th century.
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Sex role. |
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Sex role -- India -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Education -- India -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Education. |
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Women -- Education -- India -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Vocational guidance -- India -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Vocational guidance. |
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Women -- Vocational guidance -- India -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Gender roles. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Allender, Tim. Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820-1932. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016 9780719085796 (DLC) 2016304545 (OCoLC)917362554 |
| ISBN |
9781784996987 (electronic book) |
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178499698X (electronic book) |
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9780719085796 |
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0719085799 |
| Report No. |
JSTOR purchased |
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