Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges

Stephan Miescher is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Making Men in Ghana (2005) and the co-editor of Modernization as Spectacle in Africa (2014), Africa After Gender? (2007) and Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa (2003). He is also a former co-editor of Ghana Studies and co-director of the University of California Multicampus Research Group in African Studies.Michele Mitchell is Associate Professor of History at New York University and former North American editor of Gender & History. She is the author of Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction (2004), and co-editor of Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas (Blackwell, 2004). Naoko Shibusawa is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Brown University, where she teaches courses on US empire. She is the author of America’s Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy (2006).

• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges 1MICHELE MITCHELL AND NAOKO SHIBUSAWA WITH STEPHAN F. MIESCHERPart I Labour1 The Sexual Politics of Imperial Expansion: Eunuchs and Indirect Colonial Rule in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North India 25JESSICA HINCHY2 Remaking Anglo-Indian Men: Agricultural Labour as Remedy in the British Empire, 1908–38 49JANE McCABE3 ‘Robot Farmers’ and Cosmopolitan Workers: Technological Masculinity and Agricultural Development in the French Soudan (Mali), 1945–68 70LAURA ANN TWAGIRAPart II Commodities4 Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700–60 91CHRISTINE WALKER5 Fashioning their Place: Dress and Global Imagination in Imperial Sudan 115MARIE GRACE BROWN6 The Transnational Homophile Movement and the Development of Domesticity in Mexico City’s Homosexual Community, 1930–70 132VÍCTOR M. MACIÁS-GONZÁLEZPart III Fashioning Politics7 Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c.1900–40 161SIVAN BALSLEV8 ‘It Gave Us Our Nationality’: US Education, the Politics of Dress and Transnational Filipino Student Networks, 1901–45 181SARAH STEINBOCK-PRATT9 ‘A Life of Make-Believe’: Being Boy Scouts and ‘Playing Indian’ in British Malaya (1910–42) 205JIALIN CHRISTINA WU10 The Tank Driver who Ran with Poodles: US Visions of Israeli Soldiers and the Cold War Liberal Consensus, 1958–79 236SHAUL MITELPUNKTPart IV Mobility and Activism11 Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women’s Rights in the 1930s 261KATHERINE M. MARINO12 Guerrilla Ganja Gun Girls: Policing Black Revolutionaries from Notting Hill to Laventille 280W. CHRIS JOHNSON13 Gender and Visuality: Identification Photographs, Respectability and Personhood in Colonial Southern Africa in the 1920s and 1930s 307LORENA RIZZOIndex 329