Description
Book SynopsisThis reader on world history emphasizes the centrality of raced, sexed, and classed bodies as sites on which imperial power was imagined and exercised, in order to examine the effects of global politics, capital and culture on everyday spaces and local cultural encounters
Trade Review“
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 Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction: Bodies, Empires and World Histories / Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton 1
I. Thresholds of Modernity: Mapping Genders
Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad / Rosalind O'Hanlon 19
An Island of Women: Gender in the Qing Travel Writing about Taiwan / Emma Jinhua Teng 38
Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500–1700 / Jennifer L. Morgan 54
Christian Morality in Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary / Rebecca Overmeyer-Velazquez 67
Eva's Men: Gender and Power at the Cape of Good Hope / Julia C. Wells 84
Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in the Eighteenth-Century France / Sean Quinlan 106
II. Global Empires, Local Encounters
Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo / Mary Ann Fay 125
Reproducing Colonialism in British Columbia, 1849–1871 / Adele Perry 143
Native American and Metis Women as "Public Mothers" in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy 164
Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere / Mrinalini Sinha 183
Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports, 1884–1916 / Patrick F. McDevitt 201
Reproducing the "French Race": Immigration and Pronationalism in Early-Twentieth Century France / Elisa Camiscioli 219
Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938 / Fiona Paisley 234
Tattooed Secrets: Women's History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique / Heidi Gengenbach 253
III. The Mobility of Politics and the Politics of Mobility
An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmad Midhat Meets Madame Gulnar, 1889 / Carter Vaughn Findley 277
Out of India: The Journey of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901–1930 / Siobhan Lambert Hurley 293
Celibacy, Sexuality, and Nationalism in North India / Joseph S. Alter 310
Women's Liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926–1941 / Shoshana Keller 321
Gender, Powers, and U. S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952 / Mire Koikari 342
History 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 383
Postscript: Bodies, Genders, Empires: Reimagining World Histories / Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton 405
Contributors 425
Index 441
