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New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire i ii New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire Comparative and Global Approaches Edited by Ulrike Lindner and D ö rte Lerp iii BLOOMSBURY A CADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC 1B 3 DP , UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018 , USA BLOOMSBURY , BLOOMSBURY A CADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2018 Copyright © Ulrike Lindner, D ö rte Lerp and Contributors, 2018 For legal purposes the Acknowledgements on p. xii constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover image: Soldaten der Schutztruppe beim Stricken, 1910. (© bpk) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. 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ISBN : HB : 978-1-3500-5631-2 e PDF : 978-1-3500-5632-9 eBook: 978-1-3500-5633-6 Typeset by Refi neCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk To fi nd out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters . iv Contents List of Illustrations vii List of Contributors viii Acknowledgements xii 1 Introduction: Gendered Imperial Formations Ulrike Lindner and D ö rte Lerp 1 Part I Regulating Marriages and Demarcating Empire 2 Mixed Marriages in the Fascist Aegean and the Domestic Foundations of Imperial Sovereignty Alexis Rappas 31 3 In the Forge of Empire: Legal Order, Colonists, and Marriage in the Nineteenth- century Northern Black Sea Steppe Julia Malitska 59 Part II Intimate Relationships and Imperial Encounters 4 Interpreting an Execution in German East Africa. Race, Gender, and Memory Bettina Brockmeyer 87 5 Colonial Self- positioning. Approaching the Snapshots of an American Woman in the Philippines (1900–1902) Silvan Niedermeier 115 6 Male Same-Sex Conduct and Masculinity in Colonial German Southwest Africa Jan Severin 149 v vi Contents Part III Indigenous Servants and Colonial Homes 7 Domestic Servant Debates and the Fault Lines of Empire in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa and New Zealand Elizabeth Dillenburg 179 8 Being at Home: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in Settler Colonial Australia Eva Bischoff 209 Part IV Education and Schooling 9 Women and Education Reform in Colonial India: Trans- regional and Intersectional Perspectives Jana Tschurenev 241 10 Missionary Encounters: Female Boarding Schools in Nineteenth-Century Travancore Divya Kannan 269 Index 295 Illustrations 1.1 German soldiers in Southwest Africa, ca. 1910. Courtesy bpk – Bildagentur f ü r Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte. 1 3.1 Anna Catharina Neumeier and Johann Michael Becker’s marriage certifi cate, Josephstal colony, issued by the pastor Carl Biller on February 5, 1801. Courtesy State Archive of Odesa Oblast. 71 5.1 Eastman Kodak advertisement, 1901. Courtesy George Eastman Museum. 123 5.2 Photo album of Mary Denison Th omas, Filipino boy, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. 129 5.3 Photo album of Mary Denison Th omas, Filipino boy, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. 130 5.4 Photo album of Mary Denison Th omas, Filipino girl, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. 131 5.5 Photo album of Mary Denison Th omas, Mary Denison Th omas, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. 135 5.6 Photo album of Mary Denison Th omas, Mary Denison Th omas in a boat, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. 137 5.7 Photo album of Mary Denison Th omas, Mary Denison Th omas on a horse, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. 138 5.8 Photo album of Mary Denison Th omas, Mary Denison Th omas on a horse, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. 139 vii Contributors Eva Bischoff teaches International History at Trier University. Her research interests include colonial and imperial history, postcolonial theory, and gender/ queer studies. She received her PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. Her thesis was published as a monograph in 2011, entitled: Kannibale-Werden. Eine postkoloniale Geschichte deutscher M än nlichkeit um 1900 (transcript). She recently concluded a book project investigating the history of a group of Quaker families and their roles in the process of settler imperialism in early nineteenth- century Australia. Bettina Brockmeyer is a historian and currently postdoctoral fellow at the Collaborative Research Center “Practices of Comparison” at Bielefeld University. Her research interests include gender history, colonialism, biographical writing, and history of medicine and the body. She is the author of Selbstverst ä ndnisse. Dialoge ü ber K ö rper und Gemü t im frü hen 19. Jahrhundert (2009). She co- edited the Journal InterDisciplines (2016) on “Race, Gender, and Questions of Belonging.” In her current book project she is working on colonial biographies in an entangled Tanzanian-German-British history. Elizabeth Dillenburg is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Minnesota ( USA ). She received her BA and MA from Marquette University (Wisconsin, USA ). She is completing her dissertation, entitled “Constructing ‘the Girlhood of Our Empire’: Education, Emigration, and Girls’ Imperial Networks in Britain, South Africa, and New Zealand, c. 1880–1910.” Her research focuses on gender, childhood history, migration, historical memory, and sports history. Her publications include Th e Cricket Pitch as a Battlefi eld: Th e Historical Roots and Contemporary Contexts of the 1960s Protests against Apartheid Cricket (2012). She worked as the editorial assistant for Gender & History from 2014–2016 and has been the assistant editor of the Austrian History Yearbook since 2016. viii Contributors ix Divya Kannan is currently Assistant Professor, Department of History, at Miranda House, University of Delhi. Her research interests include histories of education, childhood, gender, and colonialism, with a particular focus on South India. She is currently involved in researching a history of popular science education, schooling, and oral narratives in twentieth- century Kerala. D ö rte Lerp is working as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Cologne. Her research focuses on German and European colonial history, global tourism history, and postcolonial memorial culture. She is author of Imperiale Grenzr ä ume. Bev ö lkerungspolitiken in Deutsch-S üd westafrika und den ös tlichen Provinzen Preu ß ens 1884–1914 (2016) and published an article on the “Colonial Gender Order” in the German Historical Museum’s catalogue G erman Colonial History. Fragments Past and Present (2016) as well as a chapter on German colonial women’s schools in Witzenhausen and Bad Weilbach (2009). She is currently exploring the history of wildlife tourism in Eastern Africa in the second half of the twentieth century. Ulrike Lindner is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne. Her research interests lie in imperial, colonial, and global history. She has worked on the comparative history of European empires in Africa and has also addressed postcolonial approaches, questions of colonial labor, and issues of gender and colonialism. Her publications include K oloniale Begegnungen: Gro ß britannien und Deutschland als Imperialm ä chte in Afrika 1880–1914 (2011), H ybrid Cultures, Nervous States. Germany and Great Britain in a (Post) colonial World (co- edited with Maren Mö hring et al., 2010); Bonded Labour. Global and Comparative Perspectives (18th–21st Century) (co- edited with Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf et al., 2016); “Transcending Gender Roles, Crossing Racial and Political Boundaries: Agnes Hill in German South West Africa,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2016). Julia Malitska received her PhD in History from S ö dert ö rn University (Sweden) in 2017. She is the author of the book N egotiating Imperial Rule: Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth- century Black Sea Steppe (2017). Her current research interests cover the history of medicine, animal welfare and consumption in Eastern and Central Europe during nineteenth- twentieth centuries.
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