New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire : Comparative and Global Approaches

__New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire__ extends our understanding of the gendered workings of empires, colonialism and imperialism, taking up recent impulses from gender history, new imperial history and global history. The authors apply new theoretical and methodological approaches to historical case studies around the globe in order to redefine the complex relationship between gender and empire. The chapters deal not only with 'typical' colonial empires like the British Empire, but also with those less well-studied, such as the German, Russian, Italian and U.S. empires. They focus on various imperial formations, from colonies in Africa or Asia to settler colonial settings like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, to imperial peripheries like the Dodecanese or the Black Sea Steppe. The book deals with key themes such as intimacy, sexuality and female education, as well as exploring new aspects like the complex marriage regimes some empires developed or the so-called 'servant debates'. It also presents several ways in which imperial formations were structured by gender and other categories like race, class, caste, sexuality, religion, and citizenship. Offering new reflections on the intimate and personal aspects of gender in imperial activities and relationships, this is an important volume for students and scholars of gender studies and imperial and colonial history. Cover page Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Contents Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Gendered Imperial Formations Gender and empire: Towards new global perspectives Imperial formations Placing gender at the center of imperial formations Central topics of the volume Notes Part I Regulating Marriages and Demarcating Empire 2 Mixed Marriages in the Fascist Aegean and the Domestic Foundations of Imperial Sovereignty Introduction: Gendered bodies as boundaries of imperial sovereignty Mixed marriages as a trans-imperial concern Vicissitudes of a “non-colored” colony in the Fascist Empire The precariousness of intercommunal harmony Upsetting sovereignty through property transfers Moral unions and “racial hygiene” Conclusion: The domestic foundations of imperial sovereignty Notes 3 In the Forge of Empire Legal Order, Colonists, and Marriage in the Nineteenth-century Northern Black Sea Steppe Historical background Subjects of the empire, objects of governance: Legal grounds for the colonists Governing the colonists, supervising their marriage Married to the empire: Bureaucratization of the colonists’ marriage Concluding discussion Notes Part II Intimate Relationships and Imperial Encounters 4 Interpreting an Execution in German East Africa. Race, Gender, and Memory The story: A hanging in German East Africa Magdalene Prince’s story and the official contemporary view Mpangile and Magdalene: A love story? Just in case of a love affair Today’s perspectives: Western historians A Tanzanian perspective The families Conclusion: More than one story Notes 5 Colonial Self-positioning. Approaching the Snapshots of an American Woman in the Philippines (1900–1902) The Philippine-American War and the role of gender in the United States’ quest for empire The discourse of women’s photography and Mary Denison Thomas’s positioning within the Philippine colonial terrain Colonial views: Approaching Mary Denison Thomas’s photographs and portraits Proximity and distance: Denison’s snapshots of Filipino children Colonial self-fashioning: Mary Denison’s photographic portraits in the Philippines Conclusion Notes 6 Male Same-Sex Conduct and Masculinity in Colonial German Southwest Africa The historical source material: Its pitfalls and its limitations The trials concerning Section 175: An interpretation and contextualization of their gradual increase during the German colonial period Sexual contact between white men in GSWA Violence, coercion, and asymmetries: Colonial power relations as part of sexual contact between white and indigenous men Colonial peculiarities in judging male same-sex conduct in GSWA White male same-sex conduct in GSWA: Legally persecuted but not officially scandalized Notes Part III Indigenous Servants and Colonial Homes 7 Domestic Servant Debates and the Fault Lines of Empire in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa and New Zealand “The root of the evil”: Black peril, the Commission on Assaults on Women, and debates about employment of African servants “White peril”: Debates over the question of African girls as domestic servants “The best British” and “better Blacks”: Racial ideologies in New Zealand “The uplift of the Maori people”: The civilizing mission of domesticity and the proposal to train Maori girls as domestic servants “A proud race”: Maori reactions to the proposal of Maori servants “Where the home life is white”: Concluding thoughts Notes 8 Being at Home Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in Settler Colonial Australia The Quaker family home The Walkers: A family in Van Diemen’s Land The settler home and as part of the colonial penal system The settler home as a site of cultural genocide The Mays: A family in South Australia The settler home as a unit of socio-ecological transformation The home as cultural contact zone The home as the site of colonial benevolence Conclusion: Being at home in settler colonial Australia Notes Part IV Education and Schooling 9 Women and Education Reformin Colonial India Trans-regional and Intersectional Perspectives Introduction Reforming the domestic sphere Imperial feminism Indian women’s agency Brahminical feminism Conclusion Notes 10 Missionary Encounters Female Boarding Schools in Nineteenth-Century Travancore Missionary women and education in Travancore Boarding schools and the making of “Christian” pupils Disciplining female bodies Conflicts within local society A site of authority: Missionary reforms in the schools Conclusion Notes Index

New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire, an open access book, extends our understanding of the gendered workings of empires, colonialism and imperialism, taking up recent impulses from gender history, new imperial history and global history. The authors apply new theoretical and methodological approaches to historical case studies around the globe in order to redefine the complex relationship between gender and empire. The chapters deal not only with 'typical' colonial empires like the British Empire, but also with those less well-studied, such as the German, Russian, Italian and U.S. empires. They focus on various imperial formations, from colonies in Africa or Asia to settler colonial settings like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, to imperial peripheries like the Dodecanese or the Black Sea Steppe. The book deals with key themes such as intimacy, sexuality and female education, as well as exploring new aspects like the complex marriage regimes some empires developed or the so-called 'servant debates'. It also presents several ways in which imperial formations were structured by gender and other categories like race, class, caste, sexuality, religion, and citizenship. Offering new reflections on the intimate and personal aspects of gender in imperial activities and relationships, this is an important volume for students and scholars of gender studies and imperial and colonial history. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

"New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire extends our understanding of the gendered workings of empires, colonialism and imperialism, taking up recent impulses from gender history, new imperial history and global history. The authors apply new theoretical and methodological approaches to historical case studies around the globe in order to redefine the complex relationship between gender and empire. The chapters deal not only with 'typical' colonial empires like the British Empire, but also with those less well-studied, such as the German, Russian, Italian and U.S. empires. They focus on various imperial formations, from colonies in Africa or Asia to settler colonial settings like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, to imperial peripheries like the Dodecanese or the Black Sea Steppe. The book deals with key themes such as intimacy, sexuality and female education, as well as exploring new aspects like the complex marriage regimes some empires developed or the so-called 'servant debates'. It also presents several ways in which imperial formations were structured by gender and other categories like race, class, caste, sexuality, religion, and citizenship. Offering new reflections on the intimate and personal aspects of gender in imperial activities and relationships, this is an important volume for students and scholars of gender studies and imperial and colonial history." -- Bloomsbury Publishing. New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire extends our understanding of the gendered workings of empires, colonialism and imperialism, taking up recent impulses from gender history, new imperial history and global history. The authors apply new theoretical and methodological approaches to historical case studies around the globe in order to redefine the complex relationship between gender and empire. The chapters deal not only with 'typical' colonial empires like the British Empire, but also with those less well-studied, such as the German, Russian, Italian and U.S. empires. They focus on various imperial formations, from colonies in Africa or Asia to settler colonial settings like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, to imperial peripheries like the Dodecanese or the Black Sea Steppe. The book deals with key themes such as intimacy, sexuality and female education, as well as exploring new aspects like the complex marriage regimes some empires developed or the so-called 'servant debates'. It also presents several ways in which imperial formations were structured by gender and other categories like race, class, caste, sexuality, religion, and citizenship. Offering new reflections on the intimate and personal aspects of gender in imperial activities and relationships, this is an important volume for students and scholars of gender studies and imperial and colonial history.-- Provided by Publisher This book deals not only with 'typical' colonial empires like the British Empire, but also with those less well-studied, such as the German, Russian, Italian and U.S. empires. The focus is on various imperial formations, from colonies in Africa or Asia to settler colonial settings like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The book deals with key themes such as intimacy, sexuality and female education, as well as exploring aspects like the marriage regimes some empires developed or the so-called 'servant debates'. It also presents several ways in which imperial formations were structured by gender and categories like race, class, caste, sexuality, religion and citizenship