‘That unit of civilisation’ and ‘the talent peculiar to women’
British employers and their servants in the nineteenth-century Indian empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18985172 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fae Ceridwen Dussart, Fae Dussart (University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 706-721 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1070-289X • E-ISSN: 1547-3384 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1070289x.2014.950971 |
| OpenAlex | W2096016771 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 18 |
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 racial status of Indian servants, relative to both their colonial employers and their metropolitan counterparts, disrupted the dynamics of dependence that structured metropolitan employer/servant relations and identities. Despite efforts to dutifully ‘civilise’ households according to a ‘British’ standard, the day-to-day reality was one in which ambivalence and uncertainty towards servants were commonplace among colonisers and where servants participated in the creation of a way of life that was specifically colonial, even while it sought to preserve and proselytise ‘Britishness’
Ambivalence · British Empire · Civilization · Colonialism · Empire · Metropolitan area · Political science · Servant · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Engineering · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook
Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power
Empire Families
Women and the Colonial State
The Servant Problem
Maid in the USA
Woman's Role in Economic Development
Food Culture in Colonial Asia
Something Like Slavery? Queensland's Aboriginal Child Workers, 1842–1945
European orphans and vagrants in India in the Nineteenth century
Tense and Tender Ties
Imperial Geographies of Home
To Glut a Menial's Grudge
Feminists and Domestic Workers
Memsahibs and their servants in nineteenth-century India[1]
Domestic Service in Australia
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |