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Gender, imperialism and global exchanges /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA :
John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
2015.
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| Colección: | Gender & history (Unnumbered)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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