WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Open Definition, Imagined Communities, Squaw

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMENST 1A03
• Professor: Jennifer Askey

Document Summary

Last week lecture on women and the nation state should make clear that the effects of colonialism are also gendered. Women"s lives dominate in the private sphere but they are, and somewhat counter-intuitively, even more vulnerable to policies and mandates that happen in the public sphere. Colonial legacy(ies) contribute to the structural manifestations of white and male privilege; to the exoticization and de-humanization od certain types of bodies; and to the criminalization of certain customs and traditions. The results of this legacy are borne differently by men and women. Colonial legacy and tourism (and their effects on women, cynthia enloe) Victorian lady travellers: mart kingsley, isabella bird, etc: created discourse around the british empire; explained native customs, local geography, etc, class and race helped them negotiate respectability issues. Package trip tourists and thomas cooke: again, seeing the empire, owning the empire, guarding against dangers from savages or natives or loss of respectability .