Bodies in Contact (eBook, PDF)

Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History
Redaktion: Antoinette Burton, Burton

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Produktbeschreibung

From portrayals of African women's bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean "e;comfort women"e; forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War, the essays collected in Bodies in Contact demonstrate how a focus on the body as a site of cultural encounter provides essential insights into world history. Together these essays reveal the "e;body as contact zone"e; as a powerful analytic rubric for interpreting the mechanisms and legacies of colonialism and illuminating how attention to gender alters understandings of world history. Rather than privileging the operations of the Foreign Office or gentlemanly capitalists, these historical studies render the home, the street, the school, the club, and the marketplace visible as sites of imperial ideologies.Bodies in Contact brings together important scholarship on colonial gender studies gathered from journals around the world. Breaking with approaches to world history as the history of "e;the West and the rest,"e; the contributors offer a panoramic perspective. They examine aspects of imperial regimes including the Ottoman, Mughal, Soviet, British, Han, and Spanish, over a span of six hundred years-from the fifteenth century through the mid-twentieth. Discussing subjects as diverse as slavery and travel, ecclesiastical colonialism and military occupation, marriage and property, nationalism and football, immigration and temperance, Bodies in Contact puts women, gender, and sexuality at the center of the "e;master narratives"e; of imperialism and world history.Contributors. Joseph S. Alter, Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Elisa Camiscioli, Mary Ann Fay, Carter Vaughn Findley, Heidi Gengenbach, Shoshana Keller, Hyun Sook Kim, Mire Koikari, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Melani McAlister, Patrick McDevitt, Jennifer L. Morgan, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Rosalind O'Hanlon, Rebecca Overmyer-Velazquez, Fiona Paisley, Adele Perry, Sean Quinlan, Mrinalini Sinha, Emma Jinhua Teng, Julia C. Wells

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822386452
• Artikelnr.: 54932998

Autorenporträt

Tony Ballantyne is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is the author of Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire and the editor of Science, Empire, and the European Exploration of the Pacific. Antoinette Burton is Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, Department of History, University of Illinois. She is the author of Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India and At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain. She is the editor of After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation (also published by Duke University Press) and a coeditor of The Journal of Women’s History.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Bodies, Empires and World Histories / Tony Ballantyne and
Antoinette Burton 1
I. Thresholds of Modernity: Mapping Genders
Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad / Rosalind O'Hanlon 19
An Island of Women: Gender in the Qing Travel Writing about Taiwan / Emma
Jinhua Teng 38
Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology,
1500–1700 / Jennifer L. Morgan 54
Christian Morality in Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary /
Rebecca Overmeyer-Velazquez 67
Eva's Men: Gender and Power at the Cape of Good Hope / Julia C. Wells 84
Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in the
Eighteenth-Century France / Sean Quinlan 106
II. Global Empires, Local Encounters
Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo / Mary Ann Fay 125
Reproducing Colonialism in British Columbia, 1849–1871 / Adele Perry 143
Native American and Metis Women as "Public Mothers" in the
Nineteenth-Century Midwest / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy 164
Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere / Mrinalini Sinha
183
Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports,
1884–1916 / Patrick F. McDevitt 201
Reproducing the "French Race": Immigration and Pronationalism in
Early-Twentieth Century France / Elisa Camiscioli 219
Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938 / Fiona Paisley 234
Tattooed Secrets: Women's History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique /
Heidi Gengenbach 253
III. The Mobility of Politics and the Politics of Mobility
An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmad Midhat Meets Madame Gulnar, 1889
/ Carter Vaughn Findley 277
Out of India: The Journey of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901–1930 / Siobhan
Lambert Hurley 293
Celibacy, Sexuality, and Nationalism in North India / Joseph S. Alter 310
Women's Liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926–1941 / Shoshana
Keller 321
Gender, Powers, and U. S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952 /
Mire Koikari 342
History and Memory: The "Comfort Women" Controversy / Hyun Sook Kim 363
"One Black Allah": The Middle East in the Cultural Politics of African
American Liberation, 1955–1970 / Melani McAllister 383
Postscript: Bodies, Genders, Empires: Reimagining World Histories / Tony
Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton 405
Contributors 425
Index 441