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Title New perspectives on the history of gender and empire : comparative and global approaches / edited by Ulrike Lindner and Dörte Lerp
Published London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary "New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire extends our understanding of the gendered workings of empires, colonialism and imperialism, taking up recent impulses from gender history, new imperial history and global history. The authors apply new theoretical and methodological approaches to historical case studies around the globe in order to redefine the complex relationship between gender and empire. The chapters deal not only with 'typical' colonial empires like the British Empire, but also with those less well-studied, such as the German, Russian, Italian and U.S. empires. They focus on various imperial formations, from colonies in Africa or Asia to settler colonial settings like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, to imperial peripheries like the Dodecanese or the Black Sea Steppe. The book deals with key themes such as intimacy, sexuality and female education, as well as exploring new aspects like the complex marriage regimes some empires developed or the so-called 'servant debates'. It also presents several ways in which imperial formations were structured by gender and other categories like race, class, caste, sexuality, religion, and citizenship. Offering new reflections on the intimate and personal aspects of gender in imperial activities and relationships, this is an important volume for students and scholars of gender studies and imperial and colonial history."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Imperialism -- Social aspects
Colonization -- Social aspects
Sex role -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Colonization -- Social aspects
Imperialism -- Social aspects
Sex role
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lindner, Ulrike, editor.
Lerp, Dörte, editor.
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