Understanding "The White Woman’s Burden": British feminists' involvement in Indian women's feminist movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Understanding "The White Woman’s Burden": British feminists' involvement in Indian women's feminist movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Derived from the term “The White Man’s Burden”, the term “The White Woman’s Burden” has been used widely by historians and academics to discuss how British feminists felt obliged to help Indian women due to imperialists sentiments they held. Despite being a common concept in the study, there has bee...

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Main Author: Gayathri Thirumagan Sri
Other Authors: Tapsi Mathur
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1744482024-04-06T16:58:13Z Understanding "The White Woman’s Burden": British feminists' involvement in Indian women's feminist movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Gayathri Thirumagan Sri Tapsi Mathur School of Humanities tapsi.mathur@ntu.edu.sg Arts and Humanities Derived from the term “The White Man’s Burden”, the term “The White Woman’s Burden” has been used widely by historians and academics to discuss how British feminists felt obliged to help Indian women due to imperialists sentiments they held. Despite being a common concept in the study, there has been a lack of scholarly research which has the specific purpose of breaking down the concept to identify how the concept manifests itself differently based on the British feminist. This thesis intends to understand how and why the concept of The White Woman’s Burden” differed among different feminists, namely Josephine Butler, Annie Besant, and Eleanor Rathbone. Bachelor's degree 2024-04-01T06:45:25Z 2024-04-01T06:45:25Z 2024 Final Year Project (FYP) Gayathri Thirumagan Sri (2024). Understanding "The White Woman’s Burden": British feminists' involvement in Indian women's feminist movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174448 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174448 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University
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Understanding "The White Woman’s Burden": British feminists' involvement in Indian women's feminist movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
description Derived from the term “The White Man’s Burden”, the term “The White Woman’s Burden” has been used widely by historians and academics to discuss how British feminists felt obliged to help Indian women due to imperialists sentiments they held. Despite being a common concept in the study, there has been a lack of scholarly research which has the specific purpose of breaking down the concept to identify how the concept manifests itself differently based on the British feminist. This thesis intends to understand how and why the concept of The White Woman’s Burden” differed among different feminists, namely Josephine Butler, Annie Besant, and Eleanor Rathbone.
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title Understanding "The White Woman’s Burden": British feminists' involvement in Indian women's feminist movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
title_short Understanding "The White Woman’s Burden": British feminists' involvement in Indian women's feminist movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
title_full Understanding "The White Woman’s Burden": British feminists' involvement in Indian women's feminist movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
title_fullStr Understanding "The White Woman’s Burden": British feminists' involvement in Indian women's feminist movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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title_sort understanding "the white woman’s burden": british feminists' involvement in indian women's feminist movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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