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Titre Genre et moralité dans la construction impériale de la race : Traduit de l'anglais par Didier Renault
Auteur Ann-Laura Stoler
Mir@bel Revue Actuel Marx
Numéro no 38, novembre 2005 Le racisme après les races
Rubrique / Thématique
Dossier
Page 75-101
Résumé anglais Until a relatively recent period, colonial history had focused on the study of the colonized, and, if some attention was dedicated to the colonizers, only the role men played in the process was deemed fit to require attention, thus arbitrarily assigning to the women of colonization contradictory features. More recent researches in women anthropology and sociology set out to analyze the image and agency of the white woman in the colonies. According to the ideological needs of the moment, as well as the different challenges opposed to the colonial rule, supposed needs, wills, political and ideological features were ascribed to these women, including racism. A closer scrutiny tends to show that one could draw a parallel between the different ways racial problems were dealt with, and the definition of the role of women in the colonization, varying according to the different demands of the imperial project. This could be explained by the ambiguous status of women in this period of history : they were both subordinates in colonial hierarchies and agents of empire in their own right.
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