Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)

The Confrontation of Power and Identity in Gender Relations: A Critical Analysis of the British Colonial Experience in Gender and Empire

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Somayeh Sadat Shafiei

Associate Research Professor of Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran,

10.30465/crtls.2026.51153.2910
Abstract
The present research deals with the qualitative analysis of the data collected in the book "Gender and Empire". The innovation of the subject starts from adopting the approach of gender studies, in which the social roles and role functions of the two sexes, as well as gender relations in the mechanism of colonialism, are discussed. The findings show that the chapters of the book have a historical aspect and are mainly focused on the encountering between colonists and natives in the early colonial period, and are indifferent to the Middle East narrative of British colonialism and the interaction of colonists with Muslims. It overlooks the kinship systems and, as a result, passes through various situations effective in gender subjugation during colonialism. However, it introduces the strategic exercising power of the colonizers, including direct and organized rejection, as well as structured discrimination on the one hand and attempts to assimilate. At the same time, it deals with issues related to gender, including race, violence, migration, childhood, medicine, missionary life, imperial rule, and finally decolonization during the 18th to 20th centuries.As a whole the critical reading of these texts has data on the emergence and manifestation of native identities in the struggle of daily situations of power and resistance.

Keywords

power
resistance
women
family
indigenous identities
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Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)

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Available Online from 22 May 2026

  • Receive Date 02 February 2025
  • Revise Date 24 April 2026
  • Accept Date 19 April 2026

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