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Boisseau, Tracey Jean. "The African Adventures of May French-Sheldon: A Critical Cultural Study of an Imperial Feminist," Department of History, Binghamton University, June 1996.
This dissertation examines the public career of May French-Sheldon (1847-1936), a wealthy, white, American woman who became known in the 1890s as the “first woman explorer of Africa” as a result of her 1891 “expedition” in the Kilimanjaro region of East Africa. My work on French-Sheldon’s self-presentation as a “White Queen in Africa,”—and on the popular press’s representation of her as a “New Woman” in the 1890s and as a feminist role model in the 1920s—contributes to current theorizing regarding the construction of U.S. national identity, imperial subjectivity, and an exclusively-white feminist iconography during the Progressive Era.
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