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Zusatztext This volume on "gendered imperial formations" brings us truly new research on less-studied settings as well as fresh findings on more established themes. Thoughtfully conceptualized and carefully written, these essays offer information and insights that are simply not available elsewhere. The authors’ work perfectly demonstrates the necessity of skillful gender analysis for investigations of colonialism. Informationen zum Autor Ulrike Lindner is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne, Germany. She is a renowned scholar of comparative European colonialism and has published, among other topics, on British and German colonialism in Africa, gender roles in colonial societies, knowledge transfer between colonial empires and colonial social policy. Dörte Lerp is a historian at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research interests include German and European colonial history, gender history and tourism history, as well as postcolonial theory and memorial culture. Vorwort Offers a global view on how gender relations shaped overseas and continental empires in the 19th and early-20th centuries. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: New Perspectives on Gender and Empire: Comparative and Global Approaches Ulrike Lindner and Dörte Lerp (both University of Cologne, Germany) I. Intimate Relationships and Marriages 1. The Domestic Foundations of Imperial Sovereignty: Mixed Marriages in the Fascist Aegean Alexis Rappas (Koç University, Turkey) 2. In the Forge of the Empire: Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth-century Northern Black Sea Steppe Julia Malitska (Södertörn University, Sweden) 3. Love Affair? State’s Affair? Interpreting a Hanging in German East Africa, or Questions of Gender and Race in Colonial Historiography Bettina Brockmeyer (Bielefeld University, Germany) II. Masculinity, Femininity and Imperial Encounters 4. Colonial Views: Approaching Gender and Empire through the Snapshots of an American Woman in the Philippines (1900-1902) Silvan Niedermeier (Erfurt University, Germany) 5. Male Same-Sex Desire and Masculinity in Colonial German Southwest Africa Jan Severin (Humboldt University, Germany) III. Indigenous Servants and Colonial Homes 6. “Where the home life is white”: D...
