دانلود کتاب New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire: Comparative and Global Approaches

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Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction Gendered Imperial Formations
Gender and empire: Towards new global perspectives
Imperial formations
Placing gender at the center of imperial formations
Central topics of the volume
Notes
Part I Regulating Marriages and Demarcating Empire
2 Mixed Marriages in the Fascist Aegean and the Domestic Foundations of Imperial Sovereignty
Introduction: Gendered bodies as boundaries of imperial sovereignty
Mixed marriages as a trans-imperial concern
Vicissitudes of a “non-colored” colony in the Fascist Empire
The precariousness of intercommunal harmony
Upsetting sovereignty through property transfers
Moral unions and “racial hygiene”
Conclusion: The domestic foundations of imperial sovereignty
Notes
3 In the Forge of Empire Legal Order, Colonists, and Marriage in the Nineteenth-century Northern Black Sea Steppe
Historical background
Subjects of the empire, objects of governance: Legal grounds for the colonists
Governing the colonists, supervising their marriage
Married to the empire: Bureaucratization of the colonists’ marriage
Concluding discussion
Notes
Part II Intimate Relationships and Imperial Encounters
4 Interpreting an Execution in German East Africa. Race, Gender, and Memory
The story: A hanging in German East Africa
Magdalene Prince’s story and the official contemporary view
Mpangile and Magdalene: A love story?
Just in case of a love affair
Today’s perspectives: Western historians
A Tanzanian perspective
The families
Conclusion: More than one story
Notes
5 Colonial Self-positioning. Approaching the Snapshots of an American Woman in the Philippines (1900–1902)
The Philippine-American War and the role of gender in the United States’ quest for empire
The discourse of women’s photography and Mary Denison Thomas’s positioning within the Philippine colonial terrain
Colonial views: Approaching Mary Denison Thomas’s photographs and portraits
Proximity and distance: Denison’s snapshots of Filipino children
Colonial self-fashioning: Mary Denison’s photographic portraits in the Philippines
Conclusion
Notes
6 Male Same-Sex Conduct and Masculinity in Colonial German Southwest Africa
The historical source material: Its pitfalls and its limitations
The trials concerning Section 175: An interpretation and contextualization of their gradual increase during the German colonial period
Sexual contact between white men in GSWA
Violence, coercion, and asymmetries: Colonial power relations as part of sexual contact between white and indigenous men
Colonial peculiarities in judging male same-sex conduct in GSWA
White male same-sex conduct in GSWA: Legally persecuted but not officially scandalized
Notes
Part III Indigenous Servants and Colonial Homes
7 Domestic Servant Debates and the Fault Lines of Empire in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa and New Zealand
“The root of the evil”: Black peril, the Commission on Assaults on Women, and debates about employment of African servants
“White peril”: Debates over the question of African girls as domestic servants
“The best British” and “better Blacks”: Racial ideologies in New Zealand
“The uplift of the Maori people”: The civilizing mission of domesticity and the proposal to train Maori girls as domestic servants
“A proud race”: Maori reactions to the proposal of Maori servants
“Where the home life is white”: Concluding thoughts
Notes
8 Being at Home Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in Settler Colonial Australia
The Quaker family home
The Walkers: A family in Van Diemen’s Land
The settler home and as part of the colonial penal system
The settler home as a site of cultural genocide
The Mays: A family in South Australia
The settler home as a unit of socio-ecological transformation
The home as cultural contact zone
The home as the site of colonial benevolence
Conclusion: Being at home in settler colonial Australia
Notes
Part IV Education and Schooling
9 Women and Education Reformin Colonial India Trans-regional and Intersectional Perspectives
Introduction
Reforming the domestic sphere
Imperial feminism
Indian women’s agency
Brahminical feminism
Conclusion
Notes
10 Missionary Encounters Female Boarding Schools in Nineteenth-Century Travancore
Missionary women and education in Travancore
Boarding schools and the making of “Christian” pupils
Disciplining female bodies
Conflicts within local society
A site of authority: Missionary reforms in the schools
Conclusion
Notes
Index