Gender and Empire

by Philippa Levine (Editor)

Overview

Focusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of empire, this is an original volume full of fascinating 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 collection of essays demonstrates the richness of studying empire through the lens of gender. This is a more inclusive look at empire, which 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, demonstrating the vitality of this innovative approach and the new historical questions it raises.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191530395
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	03/29/2007
Series:	Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	531 KB

About the Author

Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities and the Co-Director of the Program in British Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics and she has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and British Empire history, as well as on science, sexuality, and medicine.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors     xiii
Introduction: Why Gender and Empire?   Philippa Levine     1
Empire, Gender, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century   Kathleen Wilson     14
Of Gender and Empire: Reflections on the Nineteenth Century   Catherine Hall     46
Gender and Empire: The Twentieth Century   Barbara Bush     77
Medicine, Gender, and Empire   Alison Bashford     112
Sexuality, Gender, and Empire   Philippa Levine     134
Gender and Migration   A. James Hammerton     156
Nations in an Imperial Crucible   Mrinalini Sinha     181
Legacies of Departure: Decolonization, Nation-making, and Gender   Urvashi Butalia     203
Empire and Violence, 1900-1939   Jock McCulloch     220
Childhood and Race: Growing Up in the Empire   Fiona Paisley     240
Faith, Missionary Life, and the Family   Patricia Grimshaw     260
Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial Histories   Antoinette Burton     281
Index     295

Editorial Reviews

"A powerful testament to the richness of studying empire through a gendered lens...[A] collection of essays that is essential reading for advanced students and scholars interested in the history of the British Empire."—History: Reviews of New Books

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