Playing the game: the story of Western women in Arabia
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1. Verfasser: Tuson, Penelope (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London I.B. Tauris 2003
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index
Introduction: claiming a place: women and imperial politics before the First World War -- 'Keeping up the dignity of the Empire': the Viceregal Tour of the Gulf in 1903 -- The Wife of the political agent: Emily Overend Lorimer in Bahrain, 1911-12 -- Rival narratives: American Missionaries in the Gulf, 1892-1914 -- War work for the Empire: Western women in Mesopotamia and the Gulf, 1914-1918 -- Women and the 'New World Order': Anglo-American perspectives on colonialism, 1918-1926 --'Women called wild': travellers and orientalists in the inter-war years -- The 'Beach Pyjama incident', 1933: oil, the Arabian Gulf Air Route and the 'Opening up' of the coast -- Postscript: completing the story
"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."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 266 pages)
ISBN:1417520957
1860649335
9781417520954
9781860649332

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