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<p>Notes on Contributors vii</p> <p>Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges 1<br /><i>MICHELE MITCHELL AND NAOKO SHIBUSAWA WITH STEPHAN F. MIESCHER</i></p> <p><b>Part I Labour</b></p> <p>1 The Sexual Politics of Imperial Expansion: Eunuchs and Indirect Colonial Rule in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North India 25<br /><i>JESSICA HINCHY</i></p> <p>2 Remaking Anglo-Indian Men: Agricultural Labour as Remedy in the British Empire, 1908–38 49<br /><i>JANE McCABE</i></p> <p>3 ‘Robot Farmers’ and Cosmopolitan Workers: Technological Masculinity and Agricultural Development in the French Soudan (Mali), 1945–68 70<br /><i>LAURA ANN TWAGIRA</i></p> <p><b>Part II Commodities</b></p> <p>4 Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700–60 91<br /><i>CHRISTINE WALKER</i></p> <p>5 Fashioning their Place: Dress and Global Imagination in Imperial Sudan 115<br /><i>MARIE GRACE BROWN</i></p> <p>6 The Transnational Homophile Movement and the Development of Domesticity in Mexico City’s Homosexual Community, 1930–70 132<br /><i>VÍCTOR M. MACIÁS-GONZÁLEZ</i></p> <p><b>Part III Fashioning Politics</b></p> <p>7 Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c.1900–40 161<br /><i>SIVAN BALSLEV</i></p> <p>8 ‘It Gave Us Our Nationality’: US Education, the Politics of Dress and Transnational Filipino Student Networks, 1901–45 181<br /><i>SARAH STEINBOCK-PRATT</i></p> <p>9 ‘A Life of Make-Believe’: Being Boy Scouts and ‘Playing Indian’ in British Malaya (1910–42) 205<br /><i>JIALIN CHRISTINA WU</i></p> <p>10 The Tank Driver who Ran with Poodles: US Visions of Israeli Soldiers and the Cold War Liberal Consensus, 1958–79 236<br /><i>SHAUL MITELPUNKT</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Mobility and Activism</b></p> <p>11 Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women’s Rights in the 1930s 261<br /><i>KATHERINE M. MARINO</i></p> <p>12 Guerrilla Ganja Gun Girls: Policing Black Revolutionaries from Notting Hill to Laventille 280<br /><i>W. CHRIS JOHNSON</i></p> <p>13 Gender and Visuality: Identification Photographs, Respectability and Personhood in Colonial Southern Africa in the 1920s and 1930s 307<br /><i>LORENA RIZZO</i></p> <p>Index 329</p>

<b>Stephan Miescher</b> is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of <i>Making Men in Ghana</i> (2005) and the co-editor of <i>Modernization as Spectacle in Africa</i> (2014), <i>Africa After Gender?</i> (2007) and <i>Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa</i> (2003). He is also a former co-editor of <i>Ghana Studies</i> and co-director of the University of California Multicampus Research Group in African Studies.<br /><br /><b>Michele Mitchell</b> is Associate Professor of History at New York University and former North American editor of <i>Gender & History</i>. She is the author of <i>Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction</i> (2004), and co-editor of <i>Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas</i> (Blackwell, 2004). <br /><br /><b>Naoko Shibusawa</b> is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Brown University, where she teaches courses on US empire. She is the author of <i>America’s Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy</i> (2006).

In spite of its historic significance, gender considerations were often dismissed in traditional imperial histories. <i>Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges</i> presents a collection of readings which address myriad gendered dimensions of empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, across a wide range of geographic locales. Featuring contributions from more than a dozen international scholars—and based on their original research—articles revolve around such themes as labour, commodities, fashion, mobility, and activism while exploring the dynamics of empire in destinations ranging from Africa and the Americas to Europe and Asia. Special consideration is given to gender issues arising during periods when upheaval challenged colonial regimes, which often resulted in decolonization and independence. Chapters also reveal how former colonies transitioned into ‘nations,’ along with transnational dynamics that took place among modern states. A common thread woven through each article is the matter of precisely who it was that deserved to be treated and recognized as fully human in an era of imperial exchanges and ongoing capitalist globalization. Innovative and thought-provoking, <i>Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges</i> sheds important new light on our understanding of the complex gendered dimensions of the exchanges of people, ideas, and cultural practices during the post-colonial era.

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