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Book SynopsisGender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges presents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii
Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges 1
MICHELE MITCHELL AND NAOKO SHIBUSAWA WITH STEPHAN F. MIESCHER
Part I Labour
1 The Sexual Politics of Imperial Expansion: Eunuchs and Indirect Colonial Rule in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North India 25
JESSICA HINCHY
2 Remaking Anglo-Indian Men: Agricultural Labour as Remedy in the British Empire, 1908–38 49
JANE McCABE
3 ‘Robot Farmers’ and Cosmopolitan Workers: Technological Masculinity and Agricultural Development in the French Soudan (Mali), 1945–68 70
LAURA ANN TWAGIRA
Part II Commodities
4 Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700–60 91
CHRISTINE WALKER
5 Fashioning their Place: Dress and Global Imagination in Imperial Sudan 115
MARIE GRACE BROWN
6 The Transnational Homophile Movement and the Development of Domesticity in Mexico City’s Homosexual Community, 1930–70 132
VÍCTOR M. MACIÁS-GONZÁLEZ
Part III Fashioning Politics
7 Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c.1900–40 161
SIVAN BALSLEV
8 ‘It Gave Us Our Nationality’: US Education, the Politics of Dress and Transnational Filipino Student Networks, 1901–45 181
SARAH STEINBOCK-PRATT
9 ‘A Life of Make-Believe’: Being Boy Scouts and ‘Playing Indian’ in British Malaya (1910–42) 205
JIALIN CHRISTINA WU
10 The Tank Driver who Ran with Poodles: US Visions of Israeli Soldiers and the Cold War Liberal Consensus, 1958–79 236
SHAUL MITELPUNKT
Part IV Mobility and Activism
11 Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women’s Rights in the 1930s 261
KATHERINE M. MARINO
12 Guerrilla Ganja Gun Girls: Policing Black Revolutionaries from Notting Hill to Laventille 280
W. CHRIS JOHNSON
13 Gender and Visuality: Identification Photographs, Respectability and Personhood in Colonial Southern Africa in the 1920s and 1930s 307
LORENA RIZZO
Index 329
