From portrayals of African women's bodies in early modern European
travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian
nationalism to the fate of the Korean "comfort women" forced into
prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World
War, the essays collected in Bodies in Contact demonstrate how a
focus on the body as a site of cultural encounter provides
essential insights into world history. Together these essays reveal
the "body as contact zone" as a powerful analytic rubric for
interpreting the mechanisms and legacies of colonialism and
illuminating how attention to gender alters understandings of world
history. Rather than privileging the operations of the Foreign
Office or gentlemanly capitalists, these historical studies render
the home, the street, the school, the club, and the marketplace
visible as sites of imperial ideologies. Bodies in Contact brings
together important scholarship on colonial gender studies gathered
from journals around the world. Breaking with approaches to world
history as the history of "the West and the rest," the contributors
offer a panoramic perspective. They examine aspects of imperial
regimes including the Ottoman, Mughal, Soviet, British, Han, and
Spanish, over a span of six hundred years-from the fifteenth
century through the mid-twentieth. Discussing subjects as diverse
as slavery and travel, ecclesiastical colonialism and military
occupation, marriage and property, nationalism and football,
immigration and temperance, Bodies in Contact puts women, gender,
and sexuality at the center of the "master narratives" of
imperialism and world history. Contributors. Joseph S. Alter, Tony
Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Elisa Camiscioli, Mary Ann Fay,
Carter Vaughn Findley, Heidi Gengenbach, Shoshana Keller, Hyun Sook
Kim, Mire Koikari, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Melani McAlister,
Patrick McDevitt, Jennifer L. Morgan, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy,
Rosalind O'Hanlon, Rebecca Overmyer-Velazquez, Fiona Paisley, Adele
Perry, Sean Quinlan, Mrinalini Sinha, Emma Jinhua Teng, Julia C.
Wells
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