ISBN:
1119052203
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (9024 KB, 354 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Series Statement:
Gender and History Special Issues
Series Statement:
Gender and History Special Issue Book Series
Series Statement:
Gender and History Special Issues Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges
DDC:
305.4/09/01
Keywords:
Sex role -- History
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Imperialism -- History
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Imperialism ; History
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Sex role ; History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchangespresents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings. Draws on original research on gender and empire in relation to labour, commodities, fashion, politics, mobility, and visualityIncludes coverage of gender issues from countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia between the eighteenth to twentieth centuriesHighlights a range of transnational and transregional connections across the globeFeatures innovative gender analyses of the circulation of people, ideas, and cultural practices Stephan Miescher is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Making Men in Ghana(2005) and the co-editor of Modernization as Spectacle in Africa(2014), Africa After Gender?(2007) and Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa(2003). He is also a former co-editor of Ghana Studiesand co-director of the University of California Multicampus Research Group in African Studies. Michele Mitchell is Associate Professor of History at New York University and former North American editor of Gender History. She is the author of Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction(2004), and co-editor of Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas(Blackwell, 2004). Naoko Shibusawa is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Brown University, where she teaches courses on US empire. She is the author of America’s Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy(2006).
Description / Table of Contents:
Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges; Labour; Commodities; Fashioning politics; Mobility and activism; Conclusion; Notes; PART I Labour; 1 The Sexual Politics of Imperial Expansion: Eunuchs and Indirect Colonial Rule in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North India; The khwajasarais of early modern Awadh; Family, sexuality and indirect colonial rule; Eunuch labour and the sexual politics of imperial expansion; The making of a Muslim poor: the impacts of colonial modernity on khwajasarais; Conclusion; Notes
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2 Remaking Anglo-Indian Men: Agricultural Labour as Remedy in the British Empire, 1908-38The problem; First migrations; Early experiences; Persistence of a scheme; Conclusion; Notes; 3 'Robot Farmers' and Cosmopolitan Workers: Technological Masculinity and Agricultural Development in the French Soudan (Mali), 1945-68; The beginnings of the Office du Niger; The turn to mechanised agriculture, 1945-68; 'The Office has only to do with men': notions of masculine labour at the Office du Niger; Neither robots nor 'paysannat noir'; The cosmopolitan workers' Office du Niger; Technological men; Notes
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PART II Commodities4 Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700-60; Jamaica: re-configuring the gendered social hierarchy; Colonial women in a globalising market; Gender, race and slaveholding; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Fashioning their Place: Dress and Global Imagination in Imperial Sudan; Historic trade routes and domestic ties; Transformation under imperial rule; Satellite dreams; A living archive; Notes; 6 The Transnational Homophile Movement and the Development of Domesticity in Mexico City's Homosexual Community, 1930-70; Notes
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PART III Fashioning Politics7 Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c. 1900-40; Notes; 8 'It Gave Us Our Nationality': US Education, the Politics of Dress and Transnational Filipino Student Networks, 1901-45; Imperial education and the politics of dress in the colonial Philippines; Gendering nationalism, nationalising gender abroad in the United States; Conclusion; Notes; 9 'A Life of Make-Believe': Being Boy Scouts and 'Playing Indian' in British Malaya (1910-42); Setting, actors, sources
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'Making manly (mimic) men'? Colonial proscriptions of Scouting in Malaya(Other) imperial play ethics: Malayan Scouts at 'play'; Epilogue; Notes; 10 The Tank Driver who Ran with Poodles: US Visions of Israeli Soldiers and the Cold War Liberal Consensus, 1958-79; Responsible masculinity: 1958-67; Enviable masculinity: 1967-73; Spartan masculinity: 1973-79; Conclusion; Notes; PART IV Mobility and Activism; 11 Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women's Rights in the 1930s; Marta Vergara's feminist evolution
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Popular-Front Pan-American feminism at the Buenos Aires Peace Conferences
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