{"product_id":"gendered-transactions-andrew-thompson-9781526143488","title":"Gendered Transactions: The White Woman in Colonial India, C. 1820-1930","description":"\u003cp\u003eGendered transactions seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines missionary and memsahibs' colonial writings, both literary and non-literary, probing their construction of Indian women of different classes and regions, such as zenana women, peasants, ayahs and wet-nurses. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso examined are delineations of European female health issues in male authored colonial medical handbooks, which underline the misogyny undergirding this discourse. Giving voice to the Indian woman, this book also scrutinises the fiction of the first generation of western-educated Indian women who wrote in English, exploring their construction of white women and their negotiations with colonial modernities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Indrani Sen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526143488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526143488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d","brand":"Indrani Sen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43936498188543,"sku":"9781526143488","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_45e5271f-d99b-4dec-b988-6f3339dd4317.jpg?v=1681425913","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gendered-transactions-andrew-thompson-9781526143488","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}