Comment on 10 Evil Crimes Of The British Empire by The Female Colonizer and Imperialist Models of Race and Gender – IMPERIUM

[…] When considering imperialism, there is a group of people who exist at the intersection of race, class, and gender hierarchies: the female colonizer. In my last post, I examined a gender system imposed by Empire, but when considering the roles of female colonists, the distinction between colonial and gender systems blur, till they are one and the same. The logic that colonial power is built upon often overlaps with the logic used to justify a patriarchal system. This blurring allowed the British women of colonial India a certain amount of gendered power to participate in the imperialism of the British Empire. […]

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