HIST 3380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The Raj Quartet, Ashis Nandy, Amy Johnson
1 Jun 2016
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Hist3380 empire and sex, women, and gender. Empire as preserve of men a woman"s place". Women didn"t go out into empire until the mid-19th century. The female soldier , hannah snell a women who wanted to be a part of empire in the 1750"s so badly that she dressed as a soldier. Story of a women who went out into early empire raped, shot in the face twice, mauled by a tiger, sold into marriage, a sexual feeding frenzy for men. Women in early empire were part of the west-indian plantation economies as there was a domestic nature in this particular economic venture. Women as changing" the nature of empire. Racial attitudes were on the rise and a new morality was gripping britain. The memsahib (men"saab) british lady in india. Guardian of british values: reproduction, safeguard and police british domestic values in empire. Reproduce the lifestyle of living in britain in india imperial context to gender roles.
