Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges

Zusatztext

<i>Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges</i> presents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings.<br /><br /><ul><li>Draws on original research on gender and empire in relation to labour, commodities, fashion, politics, mobility, and visuality</li><li>Includes coverage of gender issues from countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia between the eighteenth to twentieth centuries</li><li>Highlights a range of transnational and transregional connections across the globe</li><li>Features innovative gender analyses of the circulation of people, ideas, and cultural practices</li></ul>

Autorenportrait

<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>Americas Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy</i> (2006).

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