Format:
xiii, 347 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9781800737990
Content:
"Capturing the history of thousands of German women recruited to colonize Southwest Africa between the 1890s and 1940s, The Servants of Empire engages a radical nationalist history of German efforts to prevent interracial unions and establish permanent white settlement. As colonists, sponsored women often supported or even helped perpetrate extreme patterns of racist violence and vigilantism in Namibia, which linked them inextricably to marked atrocities such as the Herero and Nama Genocides. Navigating the intersections of German attitudes toward race, class, ethnicity, gender, and nation, this revealing study traces the German settler community's gossip and rumors to uncover how the many poor white female settlers in Southwest Africa disrupted bourgeois race and gender relations and contributed to the trenchant sexual and racial violence in the territory."
Note:
Part I. The Origins and Biopolitics of German Women's Settlement -- Chapter 1. "Colonial Fanaticism" -- Chapter 2. "The Defilement of our Daughters" -- Chapter 3. "The Race War" -- Part II. Colonial Gossip, Moral Panics and Racial Conflict -- Chapter 4. "The Malice of Native Women" -- Chapter 5. "A Moral Danger for the Children of White Mothers" -- Chapter 6. "African Stories" -- Part III. German Women's Colonialism after the Loss of the German Colonies -- Chapter 7. German Colonial Women in the First World War -- Chapter 8. Weimar Women's Colonial Activism -- Chapter 9. German Women and the Nazi Colonial Movement -- Conclusion
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-80073-784-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Ethnology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Namibia
;
Siedlerin
;
Kolonisierung
;
Deutsche Frau
;
Migration
;
Rassismus
;
Geschichte 1896-1945
Author information:
O'Donnell, Krista 1967-
