Beschreibung:
Tim Allender is a Professor at the University of Sydney
Provides a unique longitudinal study of women in colonial India, examining their life experiences and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over more than a century of British rule.
Introduction1. Finding feminine scholars, 1820-642. Shaping a new Eurasian moral body, 1840-673. Mary Carpenter and feminine 'rescue' from Europe, 1866-774. Both sides of the mission wall, 1875-845. Female medical care: the creation of a new professional learning space, 1865-906. Feminine missionary medical professionalism and secular medical feminists, 1880-19277. Code School accomplishments and Froebel: new boundaries concerning race and pedagogy, 1883-19038. 'Better mothers': feminine and feminist educators and thresholds of female interaction, 1870-19329. Loreto and the paradigm of piety, 1890-1932ConclusionIndex