Civilizing Women

Civilizing Women
Author: Janice Boddy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0691186510

Civilizing Women is a riveting exploration of the disparate worlds of British colonial officers and the Muslim Sudanese they sought to remake into modern imperial subjects. Focusing on efforts to stop female circumcision in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1920 and 1946, Janice Boddy mines colonial documents and popular culture for ethnographic details to interleave with observations from northern Sudan, where women's participation in zâr spirit possession rituals provided an oblique counterpoint to colonial views. Written in engaging prose, Civilizing Women concerns the subtle process of "colonizing selfhood," the British women who undertook it, and those they hoped to reform. It suggests that efforts to suppress female circumcision were tied to the continuation of slavery and the rise of commercial cotton growing in Sudan, as well as to concerns about infant mortality and maternal health. Boddy traces maneuverings among political officers, teachers, missionaries, and medical personnel as they pursued their elusive goal, and describes their fraught relations with Egypt, Parliament, the Foreign Office, African nationalists, and Western feminists. In doing so, she sounds a cautionary note for contemporary interventionists who would flout local knowledge and belief.

Jane Austen's Civilized Women

Jane Austen's Civilized Women
Author: Enit Karafili Steiner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317322533

Jane Austen’s six complete novels and her juvenilia are examined in the context of civil society and gender. Steiner’s study uses a variety of contexts to appraise Austen’s work: Scottish Enlightenment theories of societal development, early-Romantic discourses on gender roles, modern sociological theories on the civilizing process.

Defying Male Civilization

Defying Male Civilization
Author: Mary Nash
Publisher: Arden Press Incorporated
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN:

DEFYING MALE CIVILIZATION examines women's role and experiences in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). It addresses the significant contributions made by anonymous women at the homefront as well as the heroic accomplishments of female political leaders and women who fought at the warfronts.

Frontier Women

Frontier Women
Author: Julie Jeffrey
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1998-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 080901601X

The classic history of women on America's frontiers, now updated and thoroughly revised. FRONTIER WOMEN is an imaginative and graceful account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions of women to the development of the American frontier. Author Julie Roy Jeffrey has expanded her original analysis to include the perspectives of African American and Native American women.

Anarchist Women, 1870-1920

Anarchist Women, 1870-1920
Author: Margaret S. Marsh
Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1981
Genre: History
ISBN:

"The anarchist-feminists and their ideology possess a significance that extends beyond anarchism and nineteenth-century popular images of it. This book examines the women who espoused anarchism and what they believed, but more importantly it seeks to understand the unique ways in which a group of women responded to the social, sexual, and economic upheavals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The antistatist, antiauthoritarian, decentralist visions of the anarchists are an integral part of our intellectual heritage. What the women anarchists tried to do is an important part of the history of the intellectual roots of the women's movement"--Jacket.

Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia

Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia
Author: Carey Anthony Watt
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843318644

'Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia' offers a series of analyses that highlights the complexities of British and Indian civilizing missions in original ways and through various historiographical approaches. The book applies the concept of the civilizing mission to a number of issues in the colonial and postcolonial eras in South Asia: economic development, state-building, pacification, nationalism, cultural improvement, gender and generational relations, caste and untouchability, religion and missionaries, class relations, urbanization, NGOs, and civil society.

Rank Ladies

Rank Ladies
Author: M. Alison Kibler
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2005-10-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807876054

A disrobing acrobat, a female Hamlet, and a tuba-playing labor activist--all these women come to life in Rank Ladies. In this comprehensive study of women in vaudeville, Alison Kibler reveals how female performers, patrons, and workers shaped the rise and fall of the most popular live entertainment at the turn of the century. Kibler focuses on the role of gender in struggles over whether high or low culture would reign in vaudeville, examining women's performances and careers in vaudeville, their status in the expanding vaudeville audience, and their activity in the vaudevillians' labor union. Respectable women were a key to vaudeville's success, she says, as entrepreneurs drew women into audiences that had previously been dominated by working-class men and recruited female artists as performers. But although theater managers publicly celebrated the cultural uplift of vaudeville and its popularity among women, in reality their houses were often hostile both to female performers and to female patrons and home to women who challenged conventional understandings of respectable behavior. Once a sign of vaudeville's refinement, Kibler says, women became associated with the decay of vaudeville and were implicated in broader attacks on mass culture as well.

The Dynamics of "race" and Gender

The Dynamics of
Author: Haleh Afshar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1994
Genre: Ethnic groups
ISBN: 9780748402120

This work is on the inter-relationships of race and gender, and the consequences of racism, for women of different backgrounds. The book aims to contribute to the debate and understanding in this area. Emphasis has been given to age, class, disability, race and sexuality.

The Idea of Civilization and the Making of the Global Order

The Idea of Civilization and the Making of the Global Order
Author: Linklater, Andrew
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2020-11-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1529213916

The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civilization have failed to acknowledge the major 20th-century analysis that examined the processes through which Europeans came to regard themselves as uniquely civilized – Norbert Elias’s On the Process of Civilization. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the significance of Elias’s reflections on civilization for International Relations. It explains the working principles of an Eliasian, or process-sociological, approach to civilization and the global order and demonstrates how the interdependencies between state-formation, colonialism and an emergent international society shaped the European 'civilizing process'.