Reading the Splendid Body: Gender and Consumerism in Eighteenth-century British Writing on IndiaUniversity of Delaware Press, 1998 - 232 páginas This book surveys an underlying discourse on female and oriental consumerism in nearly four centuries of British colonialist narratives on India. It examines some of the significant ways in which the subaltern and female body was constructed by Western ethnographers within early modern British colonialist discourses. The book offers a genealogy of colonialist spectatorship, and examines the ideologies originating within both public and private colonial spheres. Through a comparison of the discourses about and by women one can see the continuation of patriarchal injunctions within Western protofeminist discourses. Economic, ethical, colonial, patriarchal, and protofeminist polemics thus reached to and shaped one another, and this book is a record of the complex ways in which gender discourses and colonialist discourses intersected to create a colonialist spectatorship that constituted non-Western and female subjects as spectacular and needing discipline. The insights on Western protofeminists and their crisis of self-representation as subjects versus objects of discourse also further the examination of women's history in the colonial arena. |
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The Queens Private Body Sir Thomas Roe in the Court of Jahangir | 36 |
The Language of Ethnopolitical Gendering in Dry dens AurengZebe Chastening the Subaltern Female Body | 56 |
Ideal Woman or Ideal Consumer? The Drama of the Female Nabob | 80 |
Behind the Veil The Many Masks of Subaltern Sexuality | 127 |
Conclusion | 161 |
Notes | 169 |
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