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Title: Memsahib and missus: transcolonial constructions of the white mistress in India and Australia
Author/Creator: Haskins, Victoria
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description: There is a striking similarity in the representation of historical white women in India and in Australia; on the one hand we find the 'memsahib' and on the other the 'missus', and both designated by their roles not only of wife and mother to white men, but also as mistress to native workers.
Relation: Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia Vol. 39-40, Issue 1, p. 221-235
Relation: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/JOSA/journals.htm
Date: 2008
Publisher: Oriental Society of Australia, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney
Keyword(s): white women; representation of women; India; Australia
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43417
Identifier: ISSN:0030-5340

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