Bodies in Contact

Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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From portrayals of African women’s bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean “comfort women” forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War, the essays collected in Bodies in Contact demonstrate how a focus on the body as a site of cultural encounter provides essential insights into world history. Together these essays reveal the “body as contact zone” as a powerful analytic rubric for interpreting the mechanisms and legacies of colonialism and illuminating how attention to gender alters understandings of world history. Rather than privileging the operations of the Foreign Office or gentlemanly capitalists, these historical studies render the home, the street, the school, the club, and the marketplace visible as sites of imperial ideologies. Bodies in Contact brings together important scholarship on colonial gender studies gathered from journals around the world. Breaking with approaches to world history as the history of “the West and the rest,” the contributors offer a panoramic perspective. They examine aspects of imperial regimes including the Ottoman, Mughal, Soviet, British, Han, and Spanish, over a span of six hundred years-from the fifteenth century through the mid-twentieth. Discussing subjects as diverse as slavery and travel, ecclesiastical colonialism and military occupation, marriage and property, nationalism and football, immigration and temperance, Bodies in Contact puts women, gender, and sexuality at the center of the “master narratives” of imperialism and world history.Contributors. Joseph S. Alter, Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Elisa Camiscioli, Mary Ann Fay, Carter Vaughn Findley, Heidi Gengenbach, Shoshana Keller, Hyun Sook Kim, Mire Koikari, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Melani McAlister, Patrick McDevitt, Jennifer L. Morgan, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Rosalind O’Hanlon, Rebecca Overmyer-VelÁzquez, Fiona Paisley, Adele Perry, Sean Quinlan, Mrinalini Sinha, Emma Jinhua Teng, Julia C. Wells

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Utgivningsdatum2005-01-31
Mått152 x 235 x 32 mm
Vikt699 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor277
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822334675

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Tony Ballantyne is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is the author of Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire and the editor of Science, Empire, and the European Exploration of the Pacific.Antoinette Burton is Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, Department of History, University of Illinois. She is the author of Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India and At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain. She is the editor of After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation (also published by Duke University Press) and a coeditor of The Journal of Women’s History.

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Bodies, Empires and World Histories / Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton 1I. Thresholds of Modernity: Mapping Genders Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad / Rosalind O'Hanlon 19An Island of Women: Gender in the Qing Travel Writing about Taiwan / Emma Jinhua Teng 38Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500–1700 / Jennifer L. Morgan 54Christian Morality in Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary / Rebecca Overmeyer-Velazquez 67Eva's Men: Gender and Power at the Cape of Good Hope / Julia C. Wells 84Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in the Eighteenth-Century France / Sean Quinlan 106II. Global Empires, Local Encounters Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo / Mary Ann Fay 125Reproducing Colonialism in British Columbia, 1849–1871 / Adele Perry 143Native American and Metis Women as "Public Mothers" in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy 164Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere / Mrinalini Sinha 183Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports, 1884–1916 / Patrick F. McDevitt 201Reproducing the "French Race": Immigration and Pronationalism in Early-Twentieth Century France / Elisa Camiscioli 219Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938 / Fiona Paisley 234Tattooed Secrets: Women's History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique / Heidi Gengenbach 253III. The Mobility of Politics and the Politics of Mobility An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmad Midhat Meets Madame Gulnar, 1889 / Carter Vaughn Findley 277Out of India: The Journey of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901–1930 / Siobhan Lambert Hurley 293Celibacy, Sexuality, and Nationalism in North India / Joseph S. Alter 310Women's Liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926–1941 / Shoshana Keller 321Gender, Powers, and U. S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952 / Mire Koikari 342History and Memory: The "Comfort Women" Controversy / Hyun Sook Kim 363"One Black Allah": The Middle East in the Cultural Politics of African American Liberation, 1955–1970 / Melani McAllister 383Postscript: Bodies, Genders, Empires: Reimagining World Histories / Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton 405Contributors 425Index 441

“Bodies in Contact is an excellent work, full of lively essays based on an engaging variety of historical perspectives. Instructors in world history rightly complain that there is little available to students that covers gender. This volume helps fill that gap with articles on important issues in the history of contact and empire.”-Bonnie G. Smith, author of The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice