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White queen : May French-Sheldon and the imperial origins of American feminist identity /
Tracey Jean Boisseau's reading of the "White Queen" (which refers to May French-Sheldon's 1891 expedition to East Africa) connects popular notions of American feminism, American national identity, and the reorientation of Euro-American imperialism at the turn of the century
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A Tale of Imperial Feminism
- First Woman Explorer of Africa: The 1891 Expedition
- The Caravan Trek to Kilimanjaro
- Self-Discovery
- Forging a Feminine Colonial Method
- Sex and the Sultans
- Confessions of a White Queen
- Agent for Empire: Interventions in Central and West Africa, 1903-1908
- An Imperial Spy in the Congo
- A Plantation Mistress in Liberia
- Feminist for a New Generation: Mastering Femininity in 1920s America
- Taking Feminism on the Road
- Masquerading as the Subject of Feminism
- The Queen, the Sheik, the Sultana, and the Female Spectator
- Conclusion: The White Queen in the Mirror, or Reflections on the Construction of White Feminist Identity.