"Gertrude Bell and Freya Stark are the best known characters in this history and biography of Western women who lived, worked and travelled in Arabia during the first half of the twentieth century. Sometimes flamboyant and unconventional, sometimes conservative and conformist, all of them wante...

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1. Verfasser:	Tuson, Penelope (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London [u.a.] Tauris 2003
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1890-1939 Engelsen Leefwijze Vrouwen Frau Geschichte Kolonie Women, White > Arabian Peninsula > History Europäerin Amerikanerin Großbritannien Arabian Peninsula > Social conditions Great Britain > Colonies > History Arabien
Zusammenfassung:	"Gertrude Bell and Freya Stark are the best known characters in this history and biography of Western women who lived, worked and travelled in Arabia during the first half of the twentieth century. Sometimes flamboyant and unconventional, sometimes conservative and conformist, all of them wanted to be a part of imperial life. Some, like the wives of British officials, were prepared to 'play the game', others, like the American women who went to the Gulf as missionaries, were regarded as difficult newcomers and dangerous threats of imperial authority." "Using previously unexamined sources and personal papers, Penelope Tuson shows these women in a new light, not only as travellers and servants of Empire, but also as thorns-in-the-side of the British government. She also tells the stories of many lesser-known women, whose lives were equally interesting and remarkable but have until now been buried in the archives of Imperial power. Among them are Emily Overend Lorimer, wife of the British representative in Bahrain, a brilliant and witty commentator on the political and social scene, and editor of the Basra Times during the First World War; her contemporaries in the Gulf, the female American protestant missionaries who ran the hospitals in Iraq during the War and also set up schools and medical centres throughout the Gulf; and female adventurers in the inter-war years, such as Rosita Forbes, journalist, friend of heads of state, but uncompromising busy-body in the minds of British officials." "Playing the Game looks at how these very different women negotiated a place for themselves in an imperial culture which rigidly defined female roles and abilities. It explores the different ways in which some women actively participated, some passively colluded, and others deliberately subverted these roles, both in their daily lives and in their own accounts of themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	XIX, 266 S. Ill., Kt., Notenbeisp.
ISBN:	1860649335