Civilizing Women : British Crusades in Colonial Sudan /

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"Civilizing Women is a riveting exploration of the disparate worlds of British colonial officers and the Muslim Sudanese they sought to remake into modern imperial subjects. Focusing on efforts to stop female circumcision in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1920 and 1946, Janice Boddy mines col...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Boddy, Janice Patricia
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Börngen, ...
Śarmā, Kṛṣṇalāla > Sūdana
Kvinnlig könsstympning > Sudan.
Kolonier > Storbritannien.
Kvinnor > Sudan.
Frau
Beschneidung > Mann
Sexualverhalten
Besessenheitskult
Beschneidung > Frau
Kulturpolitik
Kolonialismus
Islam
Zār.
Women > Social conditions.
Sex customs.
Muslim women.
Female circumcision.
Cultural policy.
British colonies.
British.
HISTORY > Africa > East.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
Islam.
social history.
Histoire sociale.
Femmes.
Britanniques > Soudan.
Vie sexuelle > Soudan.
Zār > Soudan.
Musulmanes > Soudan.
Femmes > Soudan > Conditions sociales.
Colonialism
Circumcision, Female
Social Conditions
Women
Social history.
Women.
British > Sudan.
Sex customs > Sudan.
Zār > Sudan.
Muslim women > Sudan.
Female circumcision > Sudan.
Women > Sudan > Social conditions.
Sudan.
Grossbritannien
Africa.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Afrique > Politique culturelle.
Sudan
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > Cultural policy.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Frequently mentioned names
  • Chronology of events discussed in the text
  • Introduction
  • Imperial ethos
  • The Gordon cult
  • Interlude 1, Zâr and Islam
  • Tools for a quiet crusade
  • Interlude 2, Colonial Zayran
  • "Unconscious anthropologists"
  • Interlude 3, Spirit tribes
  • Contexts
  • Domestic blood and foreign spirits
  • North winds and the river
  • Cotton business
  • The crusades
  • Training bodies, colonizing minds
  • Battling the "barbarous custom"
  • Of "enthusiasts" and "cranks"
  • "More harm than good"
  • The law
  • Conclusion: civilizing women
  • Notes
  • References cited
  • Index.

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