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

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