Buch
Monografie
Civilizing women : British crusades in colonial Sudan
Verfasst von:
Boddy, Janice Patricia
Princeton, N.J. [u. a.]:
Princeton University Press
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2007
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402 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Boddy, Janice Patricia |
| Jahr: | 2007 |
| Maße: | 23cm |
| ISBN: | 0691123047 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Examing the British colonial rule in Sudan by focusing on efforts to stop female circumcision in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1920 and 1946 "Civilizing Women" is a riveting exploration of the disparate worlds of British colonial officers and the Muslim Sudanese they sought to remake into modern imperial subjects. The author looks at colonial documents and popular culture for ethnographic details to interleave with observations from northern Sudan, where women's participation in zar spirit possession rituals provided an oblique counterpoint to colonial views. The book concerns the subtle process of "colonizing selfhood," the British women who undertook it, and those they hoped to reform. It suggests that efforts to suppress female circumcision were tied to the continuation of slavery and the rise of commercial cotton growing in Sudan, as well as to concerns about infant mortality and maternal health. The author traces maneuverings among political officers, teachers, missionaries, and medical personnel as they pursued their elusive goal, and describes their fraught relations with Egypt, Parliament, the Foreign Office, African nationalists, and Western feminists. In doing so, she sounds a cautionary note for contemporary interventionists who would flout local knowledge and belief. | |
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