The Oxford history of the British Empire companion series
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: Why Gender and Empire?; 2. Empire, Gender, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century; 3. Of Gender and Empire: Reflections on the Nineteenth Century; 4. Gender and Empire: The Twentieth Century; 5. Medicine, Gender, and Empire; 6. Sexuality, Gender, and Empire; 7. Gender and Migration; 8. Nations in an Imperial Crucible; 9. Legacies of Departure: Decolonization, Nation-making, and Gender; 10. Empire and Violence, 1900-1939; 11. Childhood and Race: Growing Up in the Empire; 12. Faith, Missionary Life, and the Family.
13. Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial HistoriesIndex.
0
8
Bringing together disparate topics, this collection of essays demonstrates the richness of studying the empire through the lens of gender. It also examines why the empire was dominated by men and how that affected the conduct of imperial politics.