CiNii Books - Gender, imperialism and global exchanges

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

Gender, imperialism and global exchanges

Author(s)

Bibliographic Information

Available at 2 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Description and Table of Contents

Related Books： 1-1 of 1

Details

Export