Domesticating the Empire

by Clancy-Smith, Julia A.; Gouda, Frances

• ISBN13: 9780813917818
• ISBN10: 0813917816
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr

Summary

In Domesticating the Empire, Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda bring together twelve essays- most of them original- that probe issues of gender, race, and power in the French and Dutch Empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.This collection goes beyond the crude dichotomies of "European" and "indigenous" or "non-European" to examine the meanings of cross-cultural and interracial interactions in local historical contexts. The contributors' analyses are firmly rooted in historical figures and events and employ a wde range of primary sources to examine shifting images of femininity and masculinity, motherhood and fatherhood.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(20)
Frances Gouda
Julia Clancy-Smith
In Pursuit of Greater France: Visions of Empire among Musee Social Reformers, 1894--1931	21	(22)
Janet R. Horne
``Special Customs'': Paternity Suits and Citizenship in France and the Colonies, 1870--1912	43	(22)
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen
Redefining ``Frenchness'': Citizenship, Race Regeneration, and Imperial Motherhood in France and West Africa, 1914--40	65	(19)
Alice L. Conklin
Secrets and Danger: Interracial Sexuality in Louis Couperus's The Hidden Force and Dutch Colonial Culture around 1900	84	(24)
Pamela Pattynama
Womanizing Indochina: Fiction, Nation, and Cohabitation in Colonial Cambodia, 1890--1930	108	(23)
Penny Edwards
So Close and Yet So Far: The Ambivalence of Dutch Colonial Rhetoric on Javanese Servants in Indonesia, 1900--1942	131	(23)
Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
Islam, Gender, and Identities in The Making of French Algeria, 1830--1962	154	(21)
Julia Clancy-Smith
Civilizing Gender Relations in Algeria: The Paradoxical Case of Marie Bugeja, 1919--39	175	(18)
Jeanne M. Bowlan
``Irresistible Seductions'': Gendered Representations of Colonial Algeria around 1930	193	(18)
Yael Simpson Fletcher
Emancipating Each Other: Dutch Colonial Missionaries' Encounter with Karo Women in Sumatra, 1900--1942	211	(25)
Rita Smith Kipp
Good Mothers, Medeas, or Jezebels: Feminine Imagery in Colonial and Anticolonial Rhetoric in the Dutch East Indies, 1900--1942	236	(19)
Frances Gouda
Trekking to New Guinea: Dutch Colonial Fantasies of a Virgin Land, 1900--1942	255	(18)
Danilyn Fox Rutherford
Notes	273	(62)
Contributors	335	(4)
Index	339