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Zusatztext The book's strength is that! while the multifarious centrality of gender is shown beyond contention! there are few pages that do not provoke debate. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Focusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of empire produces an original volume full of fascinating new 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 new collection of essays demonstrates the richness of studying empire through the lens of gender. This more inclusive look at empire 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! and will demonstrate the vitality of this innovative approach and the new historical questions it raises. Zusammenfassung Highlighting gender as a significant and always present factor in the British Empire makes for a very different reading of that singular and fascinating history. In this volume, major scholars ask fresh questions about traditional issues, as well as exploring questions seldom hitherto asked. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Philippa Levine: Why Gender and Empire? 2: Kathleen Wilson: Empire, Gender, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century 3: Catherine Hall: Of Gender and Empire: Reflections on the Nineteenth Century 4: Barbara Bush: Gender and Empire: The Twentieth Century 5: Alison Bashford: Medicine, Gender, and Empire 6: Philippa Levine: Sexuality, Gender, and Empire 7: A. James Hammerton: Gender and Migration 8: Mrinalini Sinha: Nations in an Imperial Crucible 9: Urvashi Butalia: Legacies of Departure: Decolonization, Nation-making, and Gender 10: Jock McCulloch: Empire and Violence 1900-1939 11: Fiona Paisley: Childhood and Race: Growing up in the Empire 12: Patricia Grimshaw: Faith, Missionary Life, and the Family 13: Antoinette Burton: Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial Histories ...
