In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western
women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She
tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena
Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Madeleine Slade, and Mirra Richard and highlights the
stories of dozens of women whose names have been forgotten today. In the course
of this telling, Jayawardena raises the issues of race, class, and gender which
are part of current debates among feminists throughout the world.