Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity

Zusammenfassung The volumes seeks to explore the interrelationships between race! class and gender - an urgent concern in contemporary scholarship! but one rarely undertaken. The volume pays attention to 'hot issues' such as sexuality! nation building and citizenship. The volume considers a wide historical range from pre-colonial Africa to twentieth-century India. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Complicating categories: an introduction Eileen Boris and Ang?ique Janssens; 2. Family concerns: gender and ethnicity in pre-colonial West Africa Sandra E. Greene; 3. Narratives serially constructed and lived: ethnicity in cross-gender strikes 1887?03 Ileen A. DeVault; 4. Competing inequalities: the struggle over reserved legislative seats for women in India Laura Dudley Jenkins; 5. 'The black man's burdens': African Americans, imperialism and notions of racial manhood 1890?10 Michele Mitchell; 6. Sex workers or citizens? Prostitution and the shaping of 'settler' society in Australia Raelene Frances; 7. From muscles to nerves: gender, 'race' and the body at work in France 1919?39 Laura Levine Frader; 8. 'Blood is a very special juice': racialized bodies and citizenship in twentieth-century Germany Fatima El-Tayeb.

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• Authors: Eileen (University of Virginia) Janssens Boris, Eileen Janssens Boris
• Assisted by: Eileen Boris (Editor), Eileen (University of Virginia) Boris (Editor), Angelique Janssens (Editor), Angelique (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen Janssens (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2000
• EAN: 9780521786416
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78641-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: International Review of Social History Supplements; International Review of Social
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research