‘That unit of civilisation’ and ‘the talent peculiar to women’: British employers and their servants in the nineteenth-century Indian empire.

Domestic servants across the British Empire were instrumental in constructing colonial domesticity. In metropole and colony, they marked the physical boundaries of the house and family and the categorical boundaries of class, gender and racial difference. However, in colonial India, the gender and r...

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Publicado en:Identities Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 706 - 722
Autor principal: Dussart, Fae Ceridwen
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2015
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