French Women and the Empire - The Case of Indochina

The first book-length investigation of colonial gender politics in Third Republic France, using Indochina as a case study, charts women's experiences and activities to reveal a transformation in French views of empire: from colonial life as an exclusively male preserve to one where women's presence was seen as essential.

List of contents

• 1: Searching for Mme Donnadieu: Researching French Colonial Women's History


• 2: Gender, Migration, and Empire


• 3: Mission Civilisatrice au Féminin: The Colonial Feminine Mystique and the White Woman's Burden


• 4: Promoting Emigration to Indochina


• 5: Français d'Indochine


• 6: Poor, White, Single, and Female in the Colony


• 7: A Class of their Own: Professional Coloniales


• 8: Imperial Homemaking


• Conclusion

About the author

Marie-Paule Ha has published widely in the areas of gender studies, colonial history, and diaspora studies. She is currently working on a sourcebook on French women and the empire and a study of the history of women and the Chinese diaspora in Vietnam.

Summary

The first book-length investigation of colonial gender politics in Third Republic France, using Indochina as a case study, charts women's experiences and activities to reveal a transformation in French views of empire: from colonial life as an exclusively male preserve to one where women's presence was seen as essential.

Additional text

This well-researched and well-documented monograph by Marie-Paule Ha is a muchneeded addition to the scholarship on gender and French imperialism in Indochina. ... an invaluable source of reference for researchers and scholars, and a call for further research in the growing areas of colonial, gender, Vietnamese, and Asian studies.

Product details

• Authors: Marie-Paule Ha, Marie-Paule (Honorary Associate Professor Ha, Ha Marie-Paule
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2014
• EAN: 9780199640362
• ISBN: 978-0-19-964036-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Vietnam, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, HISTORY / Women, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909