Machine derived contents note: 1. Complicating categories: an introduction Eileen Boris and Ange;lique Janssens -- 2. Family concerns: gender and ethnicity in pre-colonial West Africa Sandra E. Greene -- 3. Narratives serially constructed and lived: ethnicity in cross-gender strikes 1887-1903 Ileen A. DeVault -- 4. Competing inequalities: the struggle over reserved legislative seats for women in India Laura Dudley Jenkins -- 5. 'The black man's burdens': African Americans, imperialism and notions of racial manhood 1890-1910 Michele Mitchell -- 6. Sex workers or citizens? Prostitution and the shaping of 'settler' society in Australia Raelene Frances -- 7. From muscles to nerves: gender, 'race' and the body at work in France 1919-1939 Laura Levine Frader -- 8. 'Blood is a very special juice': racialized bodies and citizenship in twentieth-century Germany Fatima El-Tayeb