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Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges
Gender and History Special Issues
ISBN/EAN: 9781119052203
Umbreit-Nr.: 8169830
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 352 S.
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Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 01.05.2015
Auflage: 1/2015
- Zusatztext
- Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges presents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings. * Draws on original research on gender and empire in relation to labour, commodities, fashion, politics, mobility, and visuality * Includes coverage of gender issues from countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia between the eighteenth to twentieth centuries * Highlights a range of transnational and transregional connections across the globe * Features innovative gender analyses of the circulation of people, ideas, and cultural practices
- Autorenportrait
- Stephan Miescher is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Making Men in Ghana (2005) and the co-editor of Modernization as Spectacle in Africa (2014), Africa After Gender? (2007) and Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa (2003). He is also a former co-editor of Ghana Studies and co-director of the University of California Multicampus Research Group in African Studies. Michele Mitchell is Associate Professor of History at New York University and former North American editor of Gender & History. She is the author of Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction (2004), and co-editor of Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas (Blackwell, 2004). Naoko Shibusawa is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Brown University, where she teaches courses on US empire. She is the author of America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy (2006).