Women and the Colonial Gaze

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 14
Part I Colonialism within Europe......Page 28
1 Cartimandua, Boudicca, and Rebellion: British Queens and Roman Colonial Views......Page 30
2 Between Whipping and Slavery: Double Jeopardy against Mudejar Women in Medieval Spain......Page 42
3 Greece in Chains: Philhellenism to the Rescue of a Damsel in Distress......Page 51
4 Wild Irish Women: Gender, Politics, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century......Page 62
Part II Colonialism in the Americas......Page 76
5 French Views of Native American Women in the Early Modern Era: The Tupinamba of Brazil......Page 78
6 Women as Symbols of Disorder in Early Rhode Island......Page 92
7 Native Women and State Legislation in Mexico and Canada: The Agrarian Law and the Indian Act......Page 104
8 The “Male City” of Havana: The Coexisting Logics of Colonialism, Slavery, and Patriarchy in Nineteenth-Century Cuba......Page 117
9 Imperial Eyes, Gendered Views: Concepción Gimeno Re-writes the Aztecs at the End of the Nineteenth Century......Page 130
Part III Colonialism in Asia and Africa......Page 136
10 The Indian Other: Reactions of Two Anglo-Indian Women Travel Writers, Eliza Fay and A.U.......Page 138
11 Image and Reality: Indian Diaspora Women, Colonial and Post-colonial Discourse on Empowerment and Victimology......Page 148
12 Civilizing Women: French Colonial Perceptions of Vietnamese Womanhood and Motherhood......Page 161
13 Social Construction of Idealized Images of Women in Colonial Korea: the “New Woman” versus “Motherhood”......Page 175
14 Education for Liberation or Domestication? Female Education in Colonial Swaziland......Page 187
15 Women, Gender History, and Imperial Ethiopia......Page 201
Notes......Page 215
M......Page 270
W......Page 271