| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 402 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 colonial documents and popular culture for ethnographic details to interleave with observations from northern Sudan, where women's participation in zar spirit possession rituals provided an oblique counterpoint to colonial views. Written in engaging prose, Civilizing Women concerns the subtle process of "colonizing selfhood," the British women who undertook it, and those they hoped to reform. It suggests that efforts to suppress female circumcision were tied to the continuation of slavery and the rise of commercial cotton growing in Sudan, as well as to concerns about infant mortality and maternal health. Boddy traces maneuverings among political officers, teachers, missionaries, and medical personnel as they pursued their elusive goal, and describes their fraught relations with Egypt, Parliament, the Foreign Office, African nationalists, and Western feminists. In doing so, she sounds a cautionary note for contemporary interventionists who would flout local knowledge and belief."--Book cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Śarmā, Kṛṣṇalāla Sūdana gnd |
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Börngen, ... gnd |
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Women -- Sudan -- Social conditions
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Female genital mutilation -- Sudan
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Muslim women -- Sudan
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Zār -- Sudan
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Sex customs -- Sudan
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British -- Sudan
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Women.
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Social history.
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Islam.
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Women
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Social Conditions
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Circumcision, Female
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Islam
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Colonialism
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social history.
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Islam.
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women (female humans)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- East.
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Women
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Social history
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Islam
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British
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British colonies
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Cultural policy
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Female genital mutilation
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Muslim women
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Sex customs
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Women -- Social conditions
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Zār
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Islam
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Kolonialismus
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Kulturpolitik
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Beschneidung Frau
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Besessenheitskult
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Sexualverhalten
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Beschneidung Mann
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Frau
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Kvinnor -- Sudan.
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Kolonier -- Storbritannien.
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Kvinnlig könsstympning -- Sudan.
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Cultural policy
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Sudan |
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Africa
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Sudan
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Großbritannien
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Sudan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780691186511 |
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0691186510 |
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