Gender, imperialism and global exchanges / edited by Stephan F. Miescher, Michele Mitchell and Naoko Shibusawa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miescher, Stephan, editor.

Mitchell, Michele, 1965- editor.

Shibusawa, Naoko, editor.

Series:

Gender & history (Unnumbered)

Gender and History Special Issue Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--History.

Sex role.

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 341 pages) : illustrations, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, i

Contents:

Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges; Labour; Commodities; Fashioning politics; Mobility and activism; Conclusion; Notes; PART I Labour; 1 The Sexual Politics of Imperial Expansion: Eunuchs and Indirect Colonial Rule in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North India; The khwajasarais of early modern Awadh; Family, sexuality and indirect colonial rule; Eunuch labour and the sexual politics of imperial expansion; The making of a Muslim poor: the impacts of colonial modernity on khwajasarais; Conclusion; Notes

2 Remaking Anglo-Indian Men: Agricultural Labour as Remedy in the British Empire, 1908-38 The problem; First migrations; Early experiences; Persistence of a scheme; Conclusion; Notes; 3 'Robot Farmers' and Cosmopolitan Workers: Technological Masculinity and Agricultural Development in the French Soudan (Mali), 1945-68; The beginnings of the Office du Niger; The turn to mechanised agriculture, 1945-68; 'The Office has only to do with men': notions of masculine labour at the Office du Niger; Neither robots nor 'paysannat noir'; The cosmopolitan workers' Office du Niger; Technological men; Notes

PART II Commodities 4 Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700-60; Jamaica: re-configuring the gendered social hierarchy; Colonial women in a globalising market; Gender, race and slaveholding; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Fashioning their Place: Dress and Global Imagination in Imperial Sudan; Historic trade routes and domestic ties; Transformation under imperial rule; Satellite dreams; A living archive; Notes; 6 The Transnational Homophile Movement and the Development of Domesticity in Mexico City's Homosexual Community, 1930-70; Notes

PART III Fashioning Politics 7 Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c. 1900-40; Notes; 8 'It Gave Us Our Nationality': US Education, the Politics of Dress and Transnational Filipino Student Networks, 1901-45; Imperial education and the politics of dress in the colonial Philippines; Gendering nationalism, nationalising gender abroad in the United States; Conclusion; Notes; 9 'A Life of Make-Believe': Being Boy Scouts and 'Playing Indian' in British Malaya (1910-42); Setting, actors, sources

'Making manly (mimic) men'? Colonial proscriptions of Scouting in Malaya(Other) imperial play ethics: Malayan Scouts at 'play'; Epilogue; Notes; 10 The Tank Driver who Ran with Poodles: US Visions of Israeli Soldiers and the Cold War Liberal Consensus, 1958-79; Responsible masculinity: 1958-67; Enviable masculinity: 1967-73; Spartan masculinity: 1973-79; Conclusion; Notes; PART IV Mobility and Activism; 11 Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women's Rights in the 1930's; Marta Vergara's feminist evolution

Popular-Front Pan-American feminism at the Buenos Aires Peace Conferences

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

"Originally published as Volume 26, Issue 3 of Gender & History."

ISBN:

9781119052180

1119052181

9781119052173

1119052173

9781119052197

111905219X

OCLC:

904799055