Focusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of empire produces an original volume full of fascinating new insights about the conduct of men as well as women. Bringing together disparate fields - politics, medicine, sexuality, childhood, religion, migration, and many more topics - this new collection of essays demonstrates the richness of studying empire through the lens of gender. This more inclusive look at empire asks not only why the empire was dominated by men, but how that domination affected the conduct of imperial politics. The fresh, new interpretations of the British Empire offered here will interest readers across a wide range, and will demonstrate the vitality of this innovative approach and the new historical questions it raises.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Philippa Levine: Why Gender and Empire?
- 2: Kathleen Wilson: Empire, Gender, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century
- 3: Catherine Hall: Of Gender and Empire: Reflections on the Nineteenth Century
- 4: Barbara Bush: Gender and Empire: The Twentieth Century
- 5: Alison Bashford: Medicine, Gender, and Empire
- 6: Philippa Levine: Sexuality, Gender, and Empire
- 7: A. James Hammerton: Gender and Migration
- 8: Mrinalini Sinha: Nations in an Imperial Crucible
- 9: Urvashi Butalia: Legacies of Departure: Decolonization, Nation-making, and Gender
- 10: Jock McCulloch: Empire and Violence 1900-1939
- 11: Fiona Paisley: Childhood and Race: Growing up in the Empire
- 12: Patricia Grimshaw: Faith, Missionary Life, and the Family
- 13: Antoinette Burton: Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial Histories
