Beschrijving

How did the earliest colonial women travelers view the British colonial policy? Did they collude in the exploitative structures of colonialism? How did they order and structure the strangeness of their new reality in order to construct a defined relationship with it? How did they re-construct, re-define, and re-present their identity in their self-referential travelogues? This book attempts to answer these questions. Odhoji argues that although the colonial enterprise and the prevailing dominant gender ideology subordinated women, as the \