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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Boddy, Janice, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Civilizing Women : British Crusades in Colonial Sudan / Janice Boddy. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2007 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 documents and popular culture for ethnographic details to interleave with observations from northern Sudan, where women's participation in zâr spirit possession rituals provided an oblique counterpoint to colonial views. Written in engaging prose, Civilizing Women 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. Boddy 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Female circumcision Sudan. Muslim women Sudan. Women Sudan Social conditions. Zār Sudan. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186511?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691186511 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691186511.jpg |
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