Bodies In Contact

by Ballantyne, Tony; Burton, Antoinette

• ISBN13: 9780822334675
• ISBN10: 0822334674
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

From portrayals of African women's bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean "comfort women" forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War-the essays collected in Bodies in Contact demonstrate how a focus on the body as a site of cultural encounter provides essential insights into world history. Together these essays reveal the "body as contact zone" as a powerful analytic rubric for interpreting the mechanisms and legacies of colonialism and illuminating how attention to gender alters understandings of world history. Rather than privileging the operations of the Foreign Office or gentlemanly capitalists, these historical studies render the home, the street, the school, the club, and the marketplace visible as sites of imperial ideologies.Bodies in Contact brings together important scholarship on colonial gender studies gathered from journals around the world. Breaking from approaches to world history as the history of "the West and the rest," the contributors offer a multi-centered perspective. They examine aspects of imperial regimes including the Ottoman, Mughal, Soviet, British, Han, and Spanish, over six hundred years-from the fifteenth century through the mid-twentieth. Discussing subjects as diverse as slavery and travel, ecclesiastical colonialism and military occupation, marriage and property, nationalism and football, immigration and temperance, Bodies in Contact puts women, gender, and sexuality squarely at the center of the "master narratives" of imperialism and world history.ContributorsJoseph S. AlterTony BallantyneAntoinette BurtonElisa CamsicioliMary Ann FayCarter Vaughn FindleyHeidi GengenbachShoshana KellerHyun Sook KimMire KoikariSiobhan Lambert-HurleyMelani McAlisterPatrick McDevittJennifer MorganLucy Eldersveld MurphyRosalind O'HanlonRebecca Overmyer-VelazquezFiona PaisleyAdele PerrySean QuinlanMrinalini SinhaEmma Jinhua TengJulia C. Wells

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Bodies, Empires, and World Histories	1	(18)
Tony Ballantyne
Antoinette Burton
I. Thresholds of Modernity: Mapping Genders
Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad	19	(19)
Rosalind O'Hanlon
An Island of Women: Gender in Qing Travel Writing about Taiwan	38	(16)
Emma Jinhua Teng
Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500--1700	54	(13)
Jennifer L. Morgan
Christian Morality in New Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary	67	(17)
Rebecca Overmyer-Velazquez
Eva's Men: Gender and Power at the Cape of Good Hope	84	(22)
Julia C. Wells
Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in Eighteenth-Century France	106	(19)
Sean Quinlan
II. Global Empires, Local Encounters
Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo	125	(18)
Mary Ann Fay
Reproducing Colonialism in British Columbia, 1849--1871	143	(21)
Adele Perry
Native American and Metis Women as ``Public Mothers'' in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest	164	(19)
Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere	183	(18)
Mrinalini Sinha
Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports, 1884--1916	201	(18)
Patrick F. McDevitt
Reproducing the ``French Race'': Immigration and Pronatalism in Early-Twentieth-Century France	219	(15)
Elisa Camiscioli
Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938	234	(19)
Fiona Paisley
Tattooed Secrets: Women's History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique	253	(24)
Heidi Gengenbach
III. The Mobility of Politics and the Politics of Mobility
An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat Meets Madame Gulnar, 1889	277	(16)
Carter Vaughn Findley
Out of India: The Journeys of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901--1930	293	(17)
Siobhan Lambert Hurley
Celibacy, Sexuality, and Nationalism in North India	310	(11)
Joseph S. Alter
Women's Liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926--1941	321	(21)
Shoshana Keller
Gender, Power, and U.S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945--1952	342	(21)
Mire Koikari
History and Memory: The ``Comfort Women'' Controversy	363	(20)
Hyun Sook Kim
``One Black Allah'': The Middle East in the Cultural Politics of African American Liberation, 1955--1970	383	(22)
Melani McAlister
Postscript: Bodies, Genders, Empires: Rermagining World Histories	405	(20)
Tony Ballantyne
Antoinette Burton
Contributors	425	(6)
Index	431