New perspectives on the history of gender and empire : comparative and global approaches
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New perspectives on the history of gender and empire : comparative and global approaches
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
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Description
New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire, an open access book, extends our understanding of the gendered workings of empires, colonialism and imperialism, taking up recent impulses from gender history, new imperial history and global history. The authors apply new theoretical and methodological approaches to historical case studies around the globe in order to redefine the complex relationship between gender and empire.
The chapters deal not only with 'typical' colonial empires like the British Empire, but also with those less well-studied, such as the German, Russian, Italian and U.S. empires. They focus on various imperial formations, from colonies in Africa or Asia to settler colonial settings like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, to imperial peripheries like the Dodecanese or the Black Sea Steppe. The book deals with key themes such as intimacy, sexuality and female education, as well as exploring new aspects like the complex marriage regimes some empires developed or the so-called 'servant debates'. It also presents several ways in which imperial formations were structured by gender and other categories like race, class, caste, sexuality, religion, and citizenship.
Offering new reflections on the intimate and personal aspects of gender in imperial activities and relationships, this is an important volume for students and scholars of gender studies and imperial and colonial history.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
Table of Contents
Introduction: New Perspectives on Gender and Empire: Comparative and Global Approaches Ulrike Lindner and Doerte Lerp (both University of Cologne, Germany)
I. Intimate Relationships and Marriages
1. The Domestic Foundations of Imperial Sovereignty: Mixed Marriages in the Fascist Aegean Alexis Rappas (Koc University, Turkey)
2. In the Forge of the Empire: Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth-century Northern Black Sea Steppe Julia Malitska (Soedertoern University, Sweden)
3. Love Affair? State's Affair? Interpreting a Hanging in German East Africa, or Questions of Gender and Race in Colonial Historiography Bettina Brockmeyer (Bielefeld University, Germany)
II. Masculinity, Femininity and Imperial Encounters
4. Colonial Views: Approaching Gender and Empire through the Snapshots of an American Woman in the Philippines (1900-1902) Silvan Niedermeier (Erfurt University, Germany)
5. Male Same-Sex Desire and Masculinity in Colonial German Southwest Africa Jan Severin (Humboldt University, Germany)
III. Indigenous Servants and Colonial Homes
6. "Where the home life is white": Domestic Service Debates in New Zealand and South Africa, c. 1897-1913 Elizabeth Dillenburg (University of Minnesota, USA)
7. Being at Home: Settler Colonial Biopower and the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Australia Eva Bischoff (Trier University, Germany)
IV. Education and Schooling
8. Between Patriarchy, Imperialism, and Women's Empowerment: Female Education in Colonial India Jana Tschurenev (University of Goettingen, Germany)
9. "Saving Our Sisters": Female education and
the London Missionary Society in Nineteenth-Century South India Divya Kannan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
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