Bodies in contact : rethinking colonial encounters in world history / edited by Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ballantyne, Tony, 1972-

Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Cross-cultural studies.

Sex role.

Colonization.

Imperialism.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 445 pages).

Other Title:

Rethinking colonial encounters in world history

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This reader on world history emphasizes the centrality of raced , sexed, and classed bodies as sites on which imperial power was imagined and exercised, in order to examine the effects of global politics, capital and culture on everyday spaces and local c

Contents:

Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad / Rosalind O'Hanlon

An island of women: gender in Qing travel writing about Taiwan / Emma Jinhua Teng

Male travelers, female bodies, and the gendering of racial ideology, 1500-1700 / Jennifer L. Morgan

Christian morality in New Spain: the Nahua women in the Franciscan imaginary / Rebecca Overmyer-Velazquez

Eva's men: gender and power at the Cape of Good Hope / Julia C. Wells

Women, property, and power in eighteenth-century Cairo / Mary Ann Fay

Reproducing colonialism in British Columbia, 1849-1871 / Adele Perry

Native American and Metis women as 'public mothers' in the nineteenth-century midwest / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy

Britishness, clubbability, and the colonial public sphere / Mrinalini Sinha

Muscular Catholicism: nationalism, masculinity, and Gaelic team sports, 1884-1916 / Patrick McDevitt

Reproducing the 'French race': immigration and pronatalism in early-twentieth-century France / Elisa Camiscioli

Race hysteria, Darwin 1938 / Fiona Paisley

Tattooed secrets: women's history in Magude District, southern Mozambique / Heidi Gengenbach

An Ottoman occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat meets Madame Gulnar, 1889 / Carter Vaughn Findley

Out of India: the journeys of the Begam of Bengal, 1901-1930 / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

Celibacy, sexuality, and nationalism in North India / Joseph S. Alter

Women's liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926-1941 / Shoshana Keller

Gender, power, and U.S. imperialism: the occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 / Mire Koikari

History and memory: the 'comfort women' controversy / Hyun Sook Kim

'One black Allah': the Middle East in the cultural politics of African American liberation, 1955-1970 / Melani McAlister

Postscript: bodies, genders, empires: reimagining world histories / Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-02399-7

9786613023995

0-8223-8645-3

OCLC:

220949960