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Gender and empire / Philippa Levine, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.
- The Oxford history of the British Empire companion series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Women.
- Sex role--Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Highlighting gender as a significant and always present factor in the British Empire makes for a very different reading of that singular and fascinating history. In this volume, major scholars ask fresh questions about traditional issues, as well as exploring questions seldom hitherto asked. - ;Focusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of empire, this is an original volume full of fascinating insights about the conduct of men as well as women. Bringing together disparate fields - politics, medicine, sexuality, childhood, religion, migration, and many more topics - this colle
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: Why Gender and Empire?; 2. Empire, Gender, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century; 3. Of Gender and Empire: Reflections on the Nineteenth Century; 4. Gender and Empire: The Twentieth Century; 5. Medicine, Gender, and Empire; 6. Sexuality, Gender, and Empire; 7. Gender and Migration; 8. Nations in an Imperial Crucible; 9. Legacies of Departure: Decolonization, Nation-making, and Gender; 10. Empire and Violence, 1900-1939; 11. Childhood and Race: Growing Up in the Empire; 12. Faith, Missionary Life, and the Family
- 13. Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial HistoriesIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-924951-2
- 1-4356-1814-9
- 9786611770082
- 0-19-153039-5
- 1-281-77008-6
- OCLC:
- 437093584
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