Moving subjects : gender, mobility, and intimacy in an age of global empire.
by
Ballantyne, Tony.(ed)
; Burton, Antoinette.(ed).
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2009Edition: illustrated edition ed.Description: 353 p.ISBN: 0252075684; 9780252075681.Subject(s): Body, Human - Social aspects | Globalization | Human body - Social aspects | Imperialism | History - General History | Europe | United Kingdom, Great Britain | Gender Studies | History / Europe / Great Britain | History / World | Human Sexuality | PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality | Social Science / Women's Studies | World - Colonial Studies | Europe - Great Britain - General | Women's Studies - General | Colonialism & imperialism | European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland) | General & world history | Sexual behaviour | Women's studies | Sex Roles (Sociological Aspects) | Social Science | Sociology | Colonization | Congresses | Cross-cultural studies | Human body | Sex role | Social aspects | History: Specific SubjectsSummary: Moving Subjects is the first of its kind to make a case not simply for the necessity of a spatial analysis of imperial formations, but for the indispensability of an investigative approach that links space and movement with the domain of the intimate. Through careful archival research and a commitment to excavating the variety of "mobile intimacies" at the heart of imperial power, its agents, and its interlocutors, contributors offer new evidence and approaches for scholars engaged in capturing the historical nuances of imperial domination. Contributors are Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Adrian Carton, David Haines, Katherine Ellinghaus, Charlotte Macdonald, Michael A. McDonnell, Kirsten McKenzie, Michelle Moran, Fiona Paisley, Adele Perry, Dana Rabin, Christine M. Skwiot, Rachel Standfield, Frances Steel, Elizabeth Vibert, and Kerry Wynn.
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Moving Subjects is the first of its kind to make a case not simply for the necessity of a spatial analysis of imperial formations, but for the indispensability of an investigative approach that links space and movement with the domain of the intimate. Through careful archival research and a commitment to excavating the variety of "mobile intimacies" at the heart of imperial power, its agents, and its interlocutors, contributors offer new evidence and approaches for scholars engaged in capturing the historical nuances of imperial domination. Contributors are Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Adrian Carton, David Haines, Katherine Ellinghaus, Charlotte Macdonald, Michael A. McDonnell, Kirsten McKenzie, Michelle Moran, Fiona Paisley, Adele Perry, Dana Rabin, Christine M. Skwiot, Rachel Standfield, Frances Steel, Elizabeth Vibert, and Kerry Wynn.
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