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Women and the Colonial Gaze Also by Tamara L. Hunt DEFINING JOHN BULL: Caricature and National Identity in Late Georgian England Women and the Colonial Gaze Edited by Tamara L. Hunt Associate Professor of History Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles California USA and Micheline R. Lessard Assistant Professor of History University of Ottawa Ontario Canada Editorial matter and selection © Tamara L. Hunt and Micheline R. Lessard 2002 Introduction and Chapter 4 © Tamara L. Hunt 2002 Chapter 12 © Micheline R. Lessard 2002 Chapters 1–3, 5–11, 13–15 © Palgrave Publishers Ltd 2002 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2002 by PALGRAVE Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE is the new global academic imprint of St. Martin’s Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd). ISBN 978-0-333-77351-2 ISBN 978-0-230-52341-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230523418 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 Contents Acknowledgements vii Notes on the Contributors viii Introduction 1 Tamara L. Hunt Part I Colonialism within Europe 1 Cartimandua, Boudicca, and Rebellion: British Queens and Roman Colonial Views 17 Jane Crawford 2 Between Whipping and Slavery: Double Jeopardy against MudejarWomen in Medieval Spain 29 Isabel Bonet O’Connor 3 Greece in Chains: Philhellenism to the Rescue of a Damsel in Distress 38 Katherine E. Fleming 4 Wild Irish Women: Gender, Politics, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century 49 Tamara L. Hunt Part II Colonialism in the Americas 5 French Views of Native American Women in the Early Modern Era: The Tupinamba of Brazil 65 Laura Fishman 6 Women as Symbols of Disorder in Early Rhode Island Ruth Wallis Herndon 79 7 Native Women and State Legislation in Mexico and Canada: The Agrarian Law and the Indian Act 91 Verónica Vázquez García 8 The “Male City” of Havana: The Coexisting Logics of Colonialism, Slavery, and Patriarchy in Nineteenth-Century Cuba 104 Luis Martínez-Fernández v vi Contents 9 Imperial Eyes, Gendered Views: Concepción Gimeno Re-writes the Aztecs at the End of the Nineteenth Century 117 Carmen Ramos-Escandon Part III Colonialism in Asia and Africa 10 The Indian Other: Reactions of Two Anglo-Indian Women Travel Writers, Eliza Fay and A.U. 125 Nupur Chaudhuri 11 Image and Reality: Indian Diaspora Women, Colonial and Post-colonial Discourse on Empowerment and Victimology 135 Karen A. Ray 12 Civilizing Women: French Colonial Perceptions of Vietnamese Womanhood and Motherhood 148 Micheline R. Lessard 13 Social Construction of Idealized Images of Women in Colonial Korea: the “New Woman” versus “Motherhood” 162 Jiweon Shin 14 Education for Liberation or Domestication? Female Education in Colonial Swaziland 174 Margaret Zoller Booth 15 Women, Gender History, and Imperial Ethiopia 188 Timothy Fernyhough and Anna Fernyhough Notes 202 Index 257 Acknowledgements This book grew out of a panel organized by Micheline Lessard for the 1996 Berkshire Conference on Women’s History which was held at Chapel Hill, NC. Our thanks go to Dr Karen Ray who commented on the panel and ultimately wrote and essay for the collection, and Dr Ann Taylor Allen who chaired the panel and connected us with Jennifer Hammer of New York University Press who first proposed the idea for the collection. Dr Susan Rabe was helpful in identifying potential contributors for the volume. Patricia Wiltshire and Luciana O’Flaherty of Palgrave Publishing have been both patient and helpful as we guided the book towards completion. Ruth Willats provided invaluable editorial guidance and support. Finally, Dr Scott Hughes Myerly provided substantial editorial input and compiled the initial index for the volume. Notes on the Contributors Margaret Zoller Boothis an assistant professor in the Program of Educational Foundations and Inquiry at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She received her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Educational Psychology and International/Comparative Education from Ohio University in 1991. She is the author of several articles in such journals asComparative EducationandComparative Education Reviewand has presented a number of scholarly papers in the United States and in Africa. Nupur Chaudhuriis an assistant professor at Texas Southern University. She received her PhD from Kansas State University in 1974, and is the author of numerous articles and reviews. She was the co-editor of Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance(Indiana, 1992) and is currently working on a manuscript entitled “Life in a Gilded Cage: Memsahibs in Nineteenth- Century India.” Jane Crawford is Professor and Chair of the Classics and Archeology Department and Director of the Humanities Program at Loyola Marymount University. She received her PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her publications include M.T. Cicero: The Lost and Unpublished Speeches(1984) and M.T. Cicero: The Fragmentary Speeches(1994). Carmen Ramos-Escandonholds a PhD from SUNY at Stony Brook in Latin American History and two Masters degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in Latin American Studies and Latin American Literature. She has pub- lished two readers on gender, Genero y Historia(1991) and El genero en perspec- tiva Mexico (1992), and her Presencia y Transparencia (1987) is a reader on women in Mexico. She has contributed to a number of collected volumes on gender and women, and has published in major historical journals. Currently, she is a national researcher at CIESAS and teaches at the postgraduate History program at UNA in Mexico City. Anna Fernyhoughis a graduate of the University of London and holds an MA in Anthropology from the University of Illinois. Her expertise lies in archae- ology and human osteology, in which areas she has published reports and articles. She has also published previously on women in Ethiopia, where she has lived and worked with her husband, Tim. A qualified school teacher, her current post is at a school in Northamptonshire, England. viii ix Notes on the Contributors Timothy Fernyhough received his PhD in African History from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. At one time Assistant Director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida, he is currently Director of Studies and Senior Tutor in History, Department of American Studies and History, Brunel University, England. He is the author of articles and book chapters on Ethiopian social history. Laura Fishmanis director of the Women’s Studies program and assistant pro- fessor of history at York College, of the City University of New York, where she teaches courses in European history, colonialism, and women’s history. She received her PhD in European history from the City University of New York, where her doctoral dissertation was a comparative study of English and French attitudes towards Native Americans in the early modern era. She is also the author of several published articles and conference papers that focus on early French colonial ventures in Florida and Brazil. Current research interests include analysis of missionary goals and strategies, and the role of the colonial experience in redefining contemporary European attitudes towards work. Katherine E. Fleming is an assistant professor of history at New York University. She received her PhD in History from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. A former Mellon research fellow, she has published sever- al articles and book reviews on Ottoman history, and a book, Ali Pasha of Ioannina: a Study in Cultural Representation(1999). She is currently the review editor of the South East European Monitor. Ruth Wallis Herndonis an associate professor of history at the University of Toledo. She received her PhD from the American University in 1992. She is the author of a number of journal essays and book chapters. Her essay, coauthored with Narragansett elder Ella Sekatau, “The Right to a Name: Narragansett People and Rhode Island Officials in the Revolutionary Era” in Ethnohistory, won the 1998 Heizer prize. Her most recent publication is Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England(2001). She is currently working on a book on orphan apprenticeship in early America, a project which is supported by a major grant from the Spencer Foundation. Tamara L. Hunt is an associate professor of history at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She received a PhD in history from the University of Illinois and has been the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including an NEH Fellowship and an ACLS grant. She is the author of articles that have appeared in essay collections and in journals such as Albion and Victorian Periodicals Review, as well as a monograph, Defining John Bull: Caricature and National Identity in Late Georgian England(2001). She is current- ly working on a monograph on eighteenth-century women in the London publishing trades.
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