The White Woman's Other Burden
In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Madeleine Slade, and Mirra Richard and highlights the stories of dozens of women whose names have been forgotten today. In the course of this telling, Jayawardena raises the issues of race, class, and gender which are part of current...
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In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Madeleine Slade, and Mirra Richard and highlights the stories of dozens of women whose names have been forgotten today. In the course of this telling, Jayawardena raises the issues of race, class, and gender which are part of current debates among feminists throughout the world.
PrefaceIntroduction: The Noble and the Ignoble: White Women as Goddesses and Devils1Pt. ISaving the Sisters from the Sacred Cows: Christianity and "Civilization"1The Imagined Sisterhood of Women212Christianity and the "Westernized Oriental Gentlewoman"333Going for the Jugular of Hindu Patriarchy: American Women Fund-Raisers for Ramabai53Pt. IIMothering India: Women Social Reformers from the West4Radical and Secular Reformers655The Medicine Women: The Struggles of Western and South Asian Women Doctors756"Children of Children": The Child Marriage Controversies and India91Pt. III"Consolation in an Alien Society": Women Theosophists and Orientalists7"The Light of Asia" or "Hooey from the Orient"?1078"Sandals in India and Shoes in the West": Annie Besant's "Passage to India"1239From London's West End to Jaffna: Florence Farr as George Bernard Shaw's "New Woman"13510"Blazing the Trail for Indian Women's Freedom": Margaret Cousins in India14711"O Free Indeed! O Gloriously Free": Women Orientalists, Writers and Funders157Pt. IVWhite Women in Search of Black Gods12Western Holy Mothers as Soul Mates of Indian Gurus17513Irish Rebellion and "Muscular Hinduism": Margaret Noble as Vivekananda's "Lioness"18314From Admiral's House to Gandhi's Ashram: Madeleine Slade in India19515The "Jewish Mother" of Pondicherry: Mirra Alfassa Joins Aurobindo207Pt. VComrades In Arms: Western Socialist Women Fight Imperialism16Women and Revolution22117Comrade or Evil Temptress?: American Socialist Women and Indian Left Leaders22918Red Flags in the Emerald Isle: European Socialist Women Intervene in Sri Lanka245Conclusion: An Asian Feminist Gaze261Notes269Bibliography293Index303
