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Gender, Politics and Imperialism in India, 1883-1947
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Mary A. Procida
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$116.95 Hardcover
Release Date: 1/1/2002
ISBN: 9780719060731
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Canadian rights only
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Distributed for Manchester University Press
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About the Book
In Married to the empire, Mary A. Procida provides a new approach to the growing history of women and empire by situating women at the centre of the practices and policies of British imperialism. Rebutting interpretations that have marginalised women in the empire, this book demonstrates that women were crucial to establishing and sustaining the British Raj in India from the 'High Noon' of imperialism in the late-nineteenth century through to Indian independence in 1947.
Using three separate modes of engagement with imperialism - domesticity, violence, and race - Procida demonstrates the many and varied ways in which British women, particularly the wives of imperial officials, created a role for themselves in the empire. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including memoirs, novels, interviews, and government records, the book examines how marriage provided a role for women in the empire, looks at the home as a site for the construction of imperial power, analyses British women’s commitment to violence as a means of preserving the empire, and discusses the relationship among Indian and British men and women.
Married to the empire will be essential reading to students of British imperial history and women’s history, as well as those with an interest in the wider history of the British Empire.
About the Author(s)
Mary A. Procida is Assistant Professor of History at Temple University, Philadelphia.
Table of Contents
Introduction: We are in the empire
Part One - Domesticity
1. Married to the empire
2. Home is where the empire is
3. Servants of empire
Part Two - Violence
4. Re-writing the Mutiny
5. Good sports
Part Three - Race
6. Imperial femininity and the uplift of Indian women
7. Women, men, and imperial power
Conclusion
Bibliography
Reviews
A fascinating and fluently written narrative of Anglo-India, making a lively and perceptive contribution to the burgeoning academic literature on gender and empire
- Barbara Bush, Staffordshire University
Sample Chapter
A sample chapter of this title is not available at this time. For further information, please email info@ubcpress.ubc.ca.
Related Topics
History > Other
Cultural Studies
Gender Studies
History
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