New perspectives on the history of gender and empire : comparative and global approaches /
"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 approach...
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2018.
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Table of 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