Comp Cat Gender Class Race Ethnic: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity - Brossura

Boris, Eileen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 052178641X ISBN 13: 9780521786416

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

The volume seeks to explore the interrelationships between race, class and gender.

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Descrizione del libro

The volumes seeks to explore the interrelationships between race, class and gender - an urgent concern in contemporary scholarship, but one rarely undertaken. The volume pays attention to 'hot issues' such as sexuality, nation building and citizenship. The volume considers a wide historical range from pre-colonial Africa to twentieth-century India.

Contenuti

1. Complicating categories: an introduction Eileen Boris and Angélique Janssens; 2. Family concerns: gender and ethnicity in pre-colonial West Africa Sandra E. Greene; 3. Narratives serially constructed and lived: ethnicity in cross-gender strikes 1887–1903 Ileen A. DeVault; 4. Competing inequalities: the struggle over reserved legislative seats for women in India Laura Dudley Jenkins; 5. 'The black man's burdens': African Americans, imperialism and notions of racial manhood 1890–1910 Michele Mitchell; 6. Sex workers or citizens? Prostitution and the shaping of 'settler' society in Australia Raelene Frances; 7. From muscles to nerves: gender, 'race' and the body at work in France 1919–1939 Laura Levine Frader; 8. 'Blood is a very special juice': racialized bodies and citizenship in twentieth-century Germany Fatima El-Tayeb.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 052178641X
• ISBN 13: 9780521786416
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile