Synopses & Reviews
"It enhances our understanding of intracultural and cross-cultural relationships and raises significant questions about the complexities of the colonial phenomenon in the modern era." --Journal of World History
"Provides a powerful and important analysis foregrounding the ideological construction of whiteness in understandings of gender and sexuality.... Margaret Strobel manages to provide a convincing analysis of the contradictory and often challenging space occupied by European women in the project of empire."
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [96]-105) and index.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
One Sexuality and Society: The Myth of the Destructive Female
Two Home and Work
Three Information and Policy Mediators: Travelers, Writers, Scholars, and Administrators
Four Missionaries, Reformers, and the Status of Indigenous Women
Conclusion
Notes
References Cited
Index