Western Women in China, 1840-1950: Internationalism and Activism
written by Sarah Paddle, fl. 2009 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 11 page(s)
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- Abstract / Summary
- This collection of primary sources allows researchers to investigate Western Women in China from 1840-1950, through reviewing the work of international women’s movements and their impact on China. Over this century, we must recognise that through all the reforming interests of both missionary women and international social reformers, China was still orientalised as the “other,” for whom westerners claimed the right to speak. The voices of western women recorded in this selection often constructed the Chinese woman in terms of dominated subjectivity and non-subject status in society. Through a frame of third world difference, through Western eyes, as Mohanty has put it, the Chinese woman was located as always already in tradition, or as tradition itself. By comparison, Western woman occupied the right to speak on behalf of the Chinese woman, as they were freed by their travel and the space they inhabited away from home, yet still they spoke in languages constructed by their own racialised histories.
- Field of Interest
- Women and Social Movements
- Author
- Sarah Paddle, fl. 2009
- Collection
- Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
- Copyright Message
- Copyright @ 2017 by Alexander Street
- Content Type
- Essay
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 11
- Page Range
- 1-11
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Publisher
- Alexander Street
- Place Published / Released
- Alexandria, VA
- Subject
- Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Religion, Women and Work, Women and Rights, Mujer y Religión, Mulher e Religião, Mujer y Trabajo, Mulher e Trabalho, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, China, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Indigenous Women, Women and Religion, Post Colonial and Transnationalism, Social Movements and Indigenous Women, Indigenous Women and Missionaries, Relations with Imperial Women, Chinese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
- Topic
- Post Colonial and Transnationalism, Social Movements and Indigenous Women, Indigenous Women and Missionaries, Relations with Imperial Women
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Mujer y Religión, Mulher e Religião, Mujer y Trabajo, Mulher e Trabalho, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher
