Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Table of Contents :
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
1 Maori Agriculturalists and Aboriginal Hunter-Gatherers: Women and Colonial Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Aotearoa/New Zealand and Southeastern Australia 21
2 Enfranchising Women of Color: Woman Suffragists as Agents of Imperialism 41
3 Gendered Colonialism: The "Woman Question" in Settler Society 57
4 Actions Louder than Words: The Historical Task of Defining Feminist Consciousness in Colonial West Africa 77
5 Frontier Feminism and the Marauding White Man: Australia, 1890s to 1940s 94
6 The Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution: Constructions of Feminism and Nationalism 106
7 The Politics of Irish Identity and the Interconnections between Feminism, Nationhood, and Colonialism 121
8 Coexisting and Conflicting Identities: Women and Nationalisms in Twentieth-Century Iran 139
9 Orthodoxy, Cultural Nationalism, and Hindutva Violence: An Overview of the Gender Ideology of the Hindu Right 166
10 Surviving Absence: Jewishness and Femininity in Liberation France, 1944-45 182
11 Men, Women, and the Community Borders: German-Nationalist and National Socialist Discourses on Gender, "Race," and National Identity in Austria, 1918-1938 205
12 "Images of Sara Bartman: Sexuality, Race, and Gender in Early-Nineteenth-Century Britain Yvette Abrahams 220
Illustrations:
"A Pair of Broad Bottoms," by W. Heath. © British Museum. Reproduced from Richard Altick, The Shows of London (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978), 272.
"In Sunday Best." Reproduced from Cecil Willet Cunnington, Feminine Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century, (London: Heineman, 1935), 212.
13 Sexual and Racial Discrimination: A Historical Inquiry into the Japanese Military's "Comfort" Women System of Enforced Prostitution 237
14 Vacations in the "Contact Zone": Race, Gender, and the Traveler at Niagara Falls 251
15 Uprooted Women: Partition of Punjab 1947 270
16 Politics and the Writing of History 287
Contributors 303
Index 307
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