Gender, imperialism and global exchanges
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Gender, imperialism and global exchanges
（Gender and history special issue book series）
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015
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"Originally published as Volume 26, Issue 3 of Gender & History"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges presents 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 visuality
Includes coverage of gender issues from countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia between the eighteenth to twentieth centuries
Highlights a range of transnational and transregional connections across the globe
Features innovative gender analyses of the circulation of people, ideas, and cultural practices
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges 1
MICHELE MITCHELL AND NAOKO SHIBUSAWA WITH STEPHAN F. MIESCHER
Part I Labour
1 The Sexual Politics of Imperial Expansion: Eunuchs and Indirect Colonial Rule in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North India 25
JESSICA HINCHY
2 Remaking Anglo-Indian Men: Agricultural Labour as Remedy in the British Empire, 1908-38 49
JANE McCABE
3 'Robot Farmers' and Cosmopolitan Workers: Technological Masculinity and Agricultural Development in the French Soudan (Mali), 1945-68 70
LAURA ANN TWAGIRA
Part II Commodities
4 Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700-60 91
CHRISTINE WALKER
5 Fashioning their Place: Dress and Global Imagination in Imperial Sudan 115
MARIE GRACE BROWN
6 The Transnational Homophile Movement and the Development of Domesticity in Mexico City's Homosexual Community, 1930-70 132
VICTOR M. MACIAS-GONZALEZ
Part III Fashioning Politics
7 Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c.1900-40 161
SIVAN BALSLEV
8 'It Gave Us Our Nationality': US Education, the Politics of Dress and Transnational Filipino Student Networks, 1901-45 181
SARAH STEINBOCK-PRATT
9 'A Life of Make-Believe': Being Boy Scouts and 'Playing Indian' in British Malaya (1910-42) 205
JIALIN CHRISTINA WU
10 The Tank Driver who Ran with Poodles: US Visions of Israeli Soldiers and the Cold War Liberal Consensus, 1958-79 236
SHAUL MITELPUNKT
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 261
KATHERINE M. MARINO
12 Guerrilla Ganja Gun Girls: Policing Black Revolutionaries from Notting Hill to Laventille 280
W. CHRIS JOHNSON
13 Gender and Visuality: Identification Photographs, Respectability and Personhood in Colonial Southern Africa in the 1920s and 1930s 307
LORENA RIZZO
Index 329
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