Civilizing Women : : British Crusades in Colonial Sudan /

Civilizing Women : : British Crusades in Colonial Sudan / / Janice Boddy.

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. Focusing on efforts to stop female circumcision in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1920 and 1946, Janice Boddy mines colonial...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Boddy, Janice,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2007
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Frequently Mentioned Names
  • Chronology of Events Discussed in the Text
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Imperial Ethos
  • THE GORDON CULT
  • ZÂR AND ISLAM
  • TOOLS FOR A QUIET CRUSADE
  • COLONIAL ZAYRAN
  • UNCONSCIOUS ANTHROPOLOGISTS"
  • SPIRIT TRIBES
  • Part 2: Contexts
  • DOMESTIC BLOOD AND FOREIGN SPIRITS
  • NORTH WINDS AND THE RIVER
  • COTTON BUSINESS
  • Part 3: The Crusades
  • TRAINING BODIES, COLONIZING MINDS
  • BATTLING THE "BARBAROUS CUSTOM"
  • OF "ENTHUSIASTS" AND "CRANKS"
  • "MORE HARM THAN GOOD"
  • THE LAW
  • CONCLUSION: CIVILIZING WOMEN
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES CITED
  • INDEX

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