Gender, imperialism and global exchanges

by Miescher, Stephan Mitchell, Michele Shibusawa, Naoko

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This book presents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings.

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Title Statements

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

Summary

This book presents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
Place of Publication:Chichester
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 341 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781119052197, 111905219X, 9781119052173, 1119052173, 1119052203, 9781119052203
oclc:ocn904799055
LC Classification:JC359
Dewey Decimal:325.32

Introduction: gender, imperialism and global exchanges / Michele Mitchell and Naoko Shibusawa with Stephan F. Miescher -- The sexual politics of imperial expansion: eunuchs and indirect colonial rule in mid-nineteenth-century north India / Jessica Hinchy -- Remaking Anglo-Indian men: agricultural labour as remedy in the British Empire, 1908-38 / Jane McCabe -- 'Robot farmers' and cosmopolitan workers: technological masculinity and agricultural development in the French Soudan (Mali), 1945-68 / Laura Ann Twagira -- Pursuing her profits: women in Jamaica, Atlantic slavery and a globalising market, 1700-60 / Christine Walker -- Fashioning their place: dress and global imagination in imperial Sudan / Marie Grace Brown -- The transnational homophile movement and the development of domesticity in Mexico City's homosexual community, 1930-70 / Víctor M. Macías-González -- Dressed for success: hegemonic masculinity, elite men and Westernisation in Iran, c.1900-40 / Sivan Balslev -- 'It gave us our nationality': US education, the politics of dress and transnational Filipino student networks, 1901-45 / Sarah Steinbock-Pratt -- 'A life of make-believe': being Boy Scouts and 'playing Indian' i…

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Globalization -- Social aspects History Imperialism -- Social aspects Impérialisme -- Aspect social Mondialisation -- Aspect social Nationalism Nationalism -- History Nationalisme -- Histoire Rôle selon le sexe -- Colonies Sex role -- Colonies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigrati…