Bodies in contact : rethinking colonial encounters in world history

Bodies in contact : rethinking colonial encounters in world history /

A reader on world history that emphasises the centrality of raced, sexed & classed bodies as sites on which imperial power was imagined & exercised, this book examines the effects of global politics, capital & culture on everyday spaces & local cultural encounters.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Ballantyne, Tony, 1972- (Editor), Burton, Antoinette M., 1961- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Human body > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Human body > Symbolic aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Sex role > Cross-cultural studies.
Colonization.
Imperialism.
Globalization.
colonization.
globalism.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : bodies, empires, and world / Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton
  • Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad / Rosalind O'Hanlon
  • An island of women : gender in Qing travel writing about Taiwan / Emma Jinhua Teng
  • Male travelers, female bodies, and the gendering of racial ideology, 1500-1700 / Jennifer L. Morgan
  • Christian morality in New Spain : the Nahua woman in the Franciscan imaginary / Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez
  • Eva's men : gender and power at the Cape of Good Hope / Julia C. Wells
  • Colonial bodies, hygiene, and abolitionist politics in eighteenth-century France / Sean Quinlan
  • Women, property, and power in eighteenth-century Cairo / Mary Ann Fay
  • Reproducing colonialism in British Columbia, 1849-1871 / Adele Perry
  • Native American and Métis women as "public mothers" in the nineteenth-century Midwest / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
  • Britishness, clubbability, and the colonial public sphere / Mrinalini Sinha
  • Muscular Catholicism : nationalism, masculinity, and Gaelic team sports, 1884-1916 / Patrick F. McDevitt
  • Reproducing the "French race" : immigration and pronatalism in early-twentieth-century France / Elisa Camiscioli
  • Race hysteria, Darwin 1938 / Fiona Paisley
  • Tattooed secrets : women's history in Magude District, southern Mozambique / Heidi Gengenbach
  • An Ottoman occidentalist in Europe : Ahmed Midhat meets Madame Gülnar, 1889 / Carter Vaughn Findley
  • Out of India : the journeys of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901-1930 / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
  • Celibacy, sexuality, and nationalism in North India / Joseph S. Alter
  • Women's liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926-1941 / Shoshana Keller
  • Gender, power, and U.S. imperialism : the occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 / Mire Koikari
  • History and memory : the "comfort women" controversy / Hyun Sook Kim
  • "One Black Allah" : the Middle East in the cultural politics of African American liberation, 1955-1970 / Melani McAlister
  • Postscript : bodies, genders, empires : reimagining world histories / Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton.

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