It is true to say white women were subordinated in settler-colonial society. It is not true to say they were bystanders to the colonial enterprise, and it is certainly not accurate to imply they were victims of comparable standing to the colonized populations. In fact, white women were often among colonialism’s most vociferous proponents. Had Summers widened her scope a little, she would have seen that there was a third role white women played in Europe’s colonies: that of the Great White Mother. It was through harnessing the Great White Mother that white women were able to access a form of
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the Great White Mother!!!!
