French women and the empire : the case of Indochina / Marie-Paule Ha.
The first book-length investigation of colonial gender politics in Third Republic France, using Indochina as a case study, charts women's experiences and activities to reveal a transformation in French views of empire: from colonial life as an exclusively male preserve to one where women's presence...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
Oxford : 2014. |
| Edition: | First Edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 283 pages : illustrations, map, charts ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Searching for Mme Donnadieu - researching French colonial women's history
- Gender, migration, and Empire
- Mission Civilisatrice au Féminin: the colonial feminine mystique and the white woman's burden
- Promoting emigration to Indochina
- Franc̦ais d'Indochine
- Poor, white, single, and female in the colony
- A class of their own: Professional Coloniales
- Imperial homemaking.