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Print Price: $64.50

Format:
Paperback
320 pp.
None, 156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199249503

Publication date:
April 2007

Imprint: OUP UK


Gender and Empire

Edited by Philippa Levine

Series : Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series

Focusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of empire, this is an original volume full of fascinating insights about the conduct of men as well as women. Bringing together disparate fields - politics, medicine, sexuality, childhood, religion, migration, and many more topics - this collection of essays demonstrates the richness of studying empire through the lens of gender. This is a more inclusive look at empire, which asks not only why the empire was dominated by men, but how that domination affected the conduct of imperial politics. The fresh, new interpretations of the British Empire offered here, will interest readers across a wide range, demonstrating the vitality of this innovative approach and the new historical questions it raises.

Readership : Readers interested in the British Empire; scholars and students of imperial and commonwealth history; historians of gender.

Reviews

  • `Review from previous edition Clarity of expression and historical specificity are keynotes of this volume in the Oxford History of the British Empire Companion series.'
    THES
  • `The book's strength is that, while the multifarious centrality of gender is shown beyond contention, there are few pages that do not provoke debate.'
    THES

1. Philippa Levine: Why Gender and Empire?
2. Kathleen Wilson: Empire, Gender, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century
3. Catherine Hall: Of Gender and Empire: Reflections on the Nineteenth Century
4. Barbara Bush: Gender and Empire: The Twentieth Century
5. Alison Bashford: Medicine, Gender, and Empire
6. Philippa Levine: Sexuality, Gender, and Empire
7. A. James Hammerton: Gender and Migration
8. Mrinalini Sinha: Nations in an Imperial Crucible
9. Urvashi Butalia: Legacies of Departure: Decolonization, Nation-making, and Gender
10. Jock McCulloch: Empire and Violence 1900-1939
11. Fiona Paisley: Childhood and Race: Growing up in the Empire
12. Patricia Grimshaw: Faith, Missionary Life, and the Family
13. Antoinette Burton: Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial Histories

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Philippa Levine is Professor of History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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Special Features

  • Brings together disparate disciplines, providing a broad understanding of the subject for readers across a wide range.
  • Studies the British Empire through the lens of gender, discovering fresh insights about the conduct of men as well as women, and the empire itself.
  • Contributions by some of the leading experts in a variety of related fields.