{"product_id":"learning-femininity-in-colonial-india-18201932-1747242033675","title":"Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820–1932","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER of the Anne Bloomfield Triennial book prize awarded by the HES (UK) for best history of education book published between 2014 and 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped  by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad  framework the book examines the many life experiences of these women and  how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over  this long period of study. Drawing on a rich documentary record from  archives in the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, North America, Ireland  and Australia this book builds a clear picture of the  colonial-configured changes that influenced women interacting with the  colonial state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the early nineteenth century the role of some  women occupying colonial spaces in India was to provide emotional  sustenance to expatriate European males serving away from the moral  strictures of Britain. However, powerful colonial statecraft intervened  in the middle of the century to racialise these women and give them a  new official, moral purpose. Only some females could be teachers, chosen  by their race as reliable transmitters of genteel accomplishment codes  of European, middle-class femininity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet colonial female  activism also had impact when pressing against these revised, official  gender constructions. New geographies of female medical care outreach  emerged. Roman Catholic teaching orders, whose activism was sponsored by  piety, sought out other female colonial peripheries, some of which the  state was then forced to accommodate. Ultimately the national movement  built its own gender thresholds of interchange, ignoring the  unproductive colonial learning models for females, infected as these  models had become with the broader race, class and gender agendas of a  fading raj.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book will appeal to students and academics  working on the history of empire and imperialism, gender studies,  postcolonial studies and the history of education.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tim Allender","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50640376201508,"sku":"9781526134318","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0880\/7635\/3828\/files\/CoreSourceHub_2e18c32e-a59a-468e-9436-4ad830f5a9f7.jpg?v=1749696945","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.co.uk\/products\/learning-femininity-in-colonial-india-18201932-1747242033675","provider":"IndiePubs UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}