Western Women and Imperialism Complicity and Resistance

This volume explores what Western women did, thought, and felt in and about the colonies in Africa and India, areas that have been presented, both at the time and in subsequent scholarship, as 'no place for a white woman.' The authors analyze Western women's complicity in, as well as their resistance to, the cultural values dominant during an imperialist era. They juxtapose feminists and social reformers of varying stripes with pro-imperialist women of different levels, thereby offering insights into the workings of race and class ideologies within imperialism. The essays reveal the diversity of voices, assumptions, and understandings of empire represented by activist women who used the implied - and sometimes explicit - power of race and class to negotiate their own agenda within the colonial scene.Chaudhuri, Nupur is the author of 'Western Women and Imperialism Complicity and Resistance', published 1992 under ISBN 9780253207050 and ISBN 0253207053.