Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Bodies, Empires, and World Histories 1
5. I. Thresholds of Modernity: Mapping Genders
6. Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad 19
7. An Island of Women: Gender in Qing Travel Writing about Taiwan 38
8. Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500–1770 54
9. Christian Morality in New Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary 67
10. Eva’s Men: Gender and Power at the Cape of Good Hope 84
11. Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in Eighteenth-Century France 106
12. II. Global Empires, Local Encounters
13. Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo 125
14. Reproducing Colonialism in British Columbia, 1849–1871 143
15. Native American and Métis Women as ‘‘Public Mothers’’ in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest 164
16. Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere 183
17. Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports, 1884–1916 201
18. Reproducing the ‘‘French Race’’: Immigration and Pronatalism in Early-Twentieth-Century France 219
19. Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938 234
20. Tattooed Secrets: Women’s History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique 253
21. III. The Mobility of Politics and the Politics of Mobility
22. An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat Meets Madame Gülnar, 1889 277
23. Out of India: The Journeys of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901–1930 293
24. Celibacy, Sexuality, and Nationalism in North India 310
25. Women’s Liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926–1941 321
26. Gender, Power, and U.S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952 342
27. History and Memory: The ‘‘Comfort Women’’ Controversy 363
28. ‘‘One Black Allah’’: The Middle East in the Cultural Politics of African American Liberation, 1955–1970 383
29. Postscript: Bodies, Genders, Empires: Reimagining World Histories 405
30. Index 425