Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges

Author Stephan F. Miescher - Michele Mitchell - Naoko Shibusawa

Publisher John Wiley & Sons

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Stephan F. Miescher - Michele Mitchell - Naoko Shibusawa

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

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Copyright

2015

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9781119052180

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College Freshman - College Senior

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This work presents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings. Drawing on original research on gender and empire in relation to labour, commodities, fashion, politics, mobility, and visuality, it highlights a range of transnational and transregional connections across the globe.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Notes on Contributors.
Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges.
Labour.
1: The Sexual Politics of Imperial Expansion: Eunuchs and Indirect Colonial Rule in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North India.
2: Remaking Anglo-Indian Men: Agricultural Labour as Remedy in the British Empire, 1908–38.
3: ‘Robot Farmers’ and Cosmopolitan Workers: Technological Masculinity and Agricultural Development in the French Soudan (Mali), 1945–68.
Commodities.
4: Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700–60.
5: Fashioning their Place: Dress and Global Imagination in Imperial Sudan.
6: The Transnational Homophile Movement and the Development of Domesticity in Mexico City's Homosexual Community, 1930–70.
Fashioning Politics.
7: Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c.1900–40.
8: ‘It Gave Us Our Nationality’: US Education, the Politics of Dress and Transnational Filipino Student Networks, 1901–45.
9: ‘A Life of Make-Believe’: Being Boy Scouts and ‘Playing Indian’ in British Malaya (1910–42).
10: The Tank Driver who Ran with Poodles: US Visions of Israeli Soldiers and the Cold War Liberal Consensus, 1958–79.
Mobility and Activism.
11: Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women's Rights in the 1930s.
12: Guerrilla Ganja Gun Girls: Policing Black Revolutionaries from Notting Hill to Laventille.
13: Gender and Visuality: Identification Photographs, Respectability and Personhood in Colonial Southern Africa in the 1920s and 1930s.
Index.
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