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.