Women and the colonial gaze
By: edited by Tamara L. Hunt and Micheline R. Lessard.
Contributors: Hunt, Tamara, 1940-; Lessard, Micheline R.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Women -- Colonization.; Indigenous women -- Social conditions.; Imperialism -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cartimandua, Boudicca, and rebellion: British Queens and Roman colonial views / Jane Crawford; title: Between whipping and slavery: double jeopardy against Mudejar women in Medieval Spain / Isabel Bonet O'Connor; title: Greece in chains: philhellenism to the rescue of a damsel in distress / Katherine E. Fleming; title: Wild Irish women: gender, politics, and colonialism in the nineteenth century / Tamara L. Hunt; title: French views of Native American women in the early modern era: the Tupinamaba of Brazil / Laura Fishman; title: Women as symbols of disorder in early Rhode Island / Ruth Wallis Herndon; title: Native women and state legislation in Mexico and Canada: the agrarian law and the Indian Act / Verónica Vázquez Gárcia; title: The "male city" of Havana: the coexisting logics of colonialism, slavery, and patriarchy in nineteenth-century Cuba / Luis Martínez-Fernández; title: Imperial eyes, gendered views: Concepción Gimeno re-writes the Aztecs at the end of the nineteenth century / Carmen Ramos-Escandon; title: The Indian other: reactions of two Anglo-Indian women travel writers, Eliza Fay and A.U. / Nupur Chaudhur; title: Image and reality: Indian diaspora women, colonial and post-colonial discourse on empowerment and victimology / Karen A. Ray; title: Civilizing women: French colonial perceptions of Vietnamese womanhood and motherhood / Micheline R. Lessard; title: Social construction of idealized images of women in colonial Korea: the "new woman" versus "motherhood" / Jiweon Shin; title: Education for liberation or domestication? Female education in colonial Swaziland / Margaret Zoller Booth; title: Women, gender history, and imperial Ethiopia / Timothy Fernyhough and Anna Fernyhough.