Description |
xi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. Introduction / Frances Gouda and Julia Clancy-Smith -- 2. In Pursuit of Greater France: Visions of Empire among Musee Social Reformers, 1894-1931 / Janet R. Horne -- 3. "Special Customs": Paternity Suits and Citizenship in France and the Colonies, 1870-1912 / Jean Elisabeth Pedersen -- 4. Redefining "Frenchness": Citizenship, Race Regeneration, and Imperial Motherhood in France and West Africa, 1914-40 / Alice L. Conklin -- 5. Secrets and Danger: Interracial Sexuality in Louis Couperus's The Hidden Force and Dutch Colonial Culture around 1900 / Pamela Pattynama -- 6. Womanizing Indochina: Fiction, Nation, and Cohabitation in Colonial Cambodia, 1890-1930 / Penny Edwards -- 7. So Close and Yet so Far: The Ambivalence of Dutch Colonial Rhetoric on Javanese Servants in Indonesia, 1900-1942 / Elsbeth Locher-Scholten -- 8. Islam, Gender, and Identities in the Making of French Algeria, 1830-1962 / Julia Clancy-Smith |
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9. Civilizing Gender Relations in Algeria: The Paradoxical Case of Marie Bugeja, 1919-39 / Jeanne M. Bowlan -- 10. "Irresistible Seductions": Gendered Representations of Colonial Algeria around 1930 / Yael Simpson Fletcher -- 11. Emancipating Each Other: Dutch Colonial Missionaries' Encounter with Karo Women in Sumatra, 1900-1942 / Rita Smith Kipp -- 12. Good Mothers, Medeas, or Jezebels: Feminine Imagery in Colonial and Anticolonial Rhetoric in the Dutch East Indies, 1900-1942 / Frances Gouda -- 13. Trekking to New Guinea: Dutch Colonial Fantasies of a Virgin Land, 1900-1942 / Danilyn Fox Rutherford |
Summary |
"In Domesticating the Empire, Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda bring together twelve essays - most of them original - that probe issues of gender, race, and power in the French and Dutch Empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-334) and index |
Subject |
Families -- France -- Colonies -- History.
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Families -- Netherlands -- Colonies -- History.
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Sex role.
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Women -- France -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- France -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Netherlands -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Netherlands -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century.
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SUBJECT |
France -- Colonies.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051201
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Netherlands -- Colonies.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009008118
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Author |
Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann.
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Gouda, Frances, 1950-
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LC no. |
97039064 |
ISBN |
0813917808 alkaline paper cloth |
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0813917816 alkaline paper paperback |
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