Table of Contents

1: Searching for Mme Donnadieu: Researching French Colonial Women's History
2: Gender, Migration, and Empire
3: Mission Civilisatrice au Féminin: The Colonial Feminine Mystique and the White Woman's Burden
4: Promoting Emigration to Indochina
5: Français d'Indochine
6: Poor, White, Single, and Female in the Colony
7: A Class of their Own: Professional Coloniales
8: Imperial Homemaking
Conclusion

About the Author

Marie-Paule Ha has published widely in the areas of gender studies, colonial history, and diaspora studies. She is currently working on a sourcebook on French women and the empire and a study of the history of women and the Chinese diaspora in Vietnam.

Reviews

This well-researched and well-documented monograph by Marie-Paule Ha is a muchneeded addition to the scholarship on gender and French imperialism in Indochina. ... an invaluable source of reference for researchers and scholars, and a call for further research in the growing areas of colonial, gender, Vietnamese, and Asian studies.
*Tess Do, French Studies*