A01=Narin Hassan
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Ahmed's Book
Author_Narin Hassan
Bombay (Mumbai)
British women physicians
British Women Travelers
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Christianity
Civilizing mission
Colleges
colonial
Colonial Administration
Colonial Medicine
Colonization
Colony
Cornelia Sorabji
Development
Disease
Distinguished Indian Women
doctors
Dufferin Fund
Education
Environment
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Gender
gender and colonialism
Green Corn
health reform movements
Indian Women
Indian Women's Lives
Invisible Women
Krupabai Satthianadhan
Lady Doctor
Lady Dufferin
London
Marriage
mary
Mary Scharlieb
Medical Women
Missionary work
Modernity
Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters
Native Women's Health
Nineteenth Century Women Travelers
nineteenth-century medical education
Pandita Ramabai
Public health
reform
scharlieb
Science
Smallpox
travel
travel writing analysis
travelers
Turkish Embassy Letters
Victorian medical history
Victorian Women's Travel Writing
women
women doctors in colonial India
Women Travelers
Women's Travel Writing
womens
writing
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409426110
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Examining the emerging figure of the woman doctor and her relationship to empire in Victorian culture, Narin Hassan traces both amateur and professional 'doctoring' by British women travelers in colonial India and the Middle East. Hassan sets the scene by offering examples from Victorian novels that reveal the rise of the woman doctor as a fictional trope. Similarly, medical advice manuals by Victorian doctors aimed at families traveling overseas emphasized how women should maintain and manage healthy bodies in colonial locales. For Lucie Duff Gordon, Isabel Burton, Anna Leonowens, among others, doctoring natives secured them access to their private lives and cultural traditions. Medical texts and travel guides produced by practicing women doctors like Mary Scharlieb illustrate the relationship between medical progress and colonialism. They also helped support women's medical education in Britain and the colonies of India and the Middle East. Colonial subjects themselves produced texts in response to colonial and medical reform, and Hassan shows that a number of "New" Indian women, including Krupabai Satthianadhan, participated actively in the public sphere through their involvement in health reform. In her epilogue, Hassan considers the continuing tradition of women's autobiographical narrative inspired by travel and medical knowledge, showing that in the twentieth- and twenty-first century memoirs of South Asian and Middle Eastern women doctors, the problem of the "Woman Question" as shaped by medical discourses endures.
Narin Hassan is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
