The Resource Civilizing women : British crusades in colonial Sudan, Janice Boddy
Civilizing women : British crusades in colonial Sudan, Janice Boddy
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- Summary
- "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 zar 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."--Book cover
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 402 pages)
- Contents
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- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Frequently mentioned names
- Chronology of events discussed in the text
- Introduction
- Imperial ethos
- The Gordon cult
- Interlude 1, Zâr and Islam
- Tools for a quiet crusade
- Interlude 2, Colonial Zayran
- "Unconscious anthropologists"
- Interlude 3, Spirit tribes
- Contexts
- Domestic blood and foreign spirits
- North winds and the river
- Cotton business
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780691186511
- Label
- Civilizing women : British crusades in colonial Sudan
- Title
- Civilizing women
- Title remainder
- British crusades in colonial Sudan
- Statement of responsibility
- Janice Boddy
- Title variation
- British crusades in colonial Sudan
- Subject
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- Beschneidung
- Besessenheitskult
- British
- British -- Sudan
- British colonies
- Circumcision, Female
- Colonialism
- Cultural policy
- Electronic books
- Female circumcision
- Female circumcision -- Sudan
- Frau
- Frau
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Cultural policy
- Großbritannien
- HISTORY / Africa / East
- Islam
- Islam
- Kolonialismus
- Kolonier -- Storbritannien
- Kulturpolitik
- Kvinnlig könsstympning -- Sudan
- Kvinnor -- Sudan
- Muslim women
- Muslim women -- Sudan
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Sex customs
- Sex customs -- Sudan
- Sexualverhalten
- Social Conditions
- Sudan
- Sudan
- Sudan
- Whitman College -- Memorial bookplates | Class of 1958
- Women
- Women -- Social conditions
- Africa
- Zār
- Zār -- Sudan
- Śarmā, Kṛṣṇalāla, Sūdana
- Women -- Sudan -- Social conditions
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 zar 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."--Book cover
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- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Boddy, Janice Patricia
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Whitman College
- Śarmā, Kṛṣṇalāla
- Women
- Female circumcision
- Muslim women
- Zār
- Sex customs
- Great Britain
- British
- British
- British colonies
- Cultural policy
- Female circumcision
- Muslim women
- Sex customs
- Women
- Zār
- Africa
- Sudan
- Islam
- Kolonialismus
- Kulturpolitik
- Frau
- Beschneidung
- Besessenheitskult
- Sexualverhalten
- Großbritannien
- Frau
- Beschneidung
- Sudan
- Kvinnor
- Kolonier
- Kvinnlig könsstympning
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- HISTORY / Africa / East
- Women
- Social Conditions
- Circumcision, Female
- Islam
- Colonialism
- Sudan
- Label
- Civilizing women : British crusades in colonial Sudan, Janice Boddy
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
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- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
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- Content type code
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Frequently mentioned names -- Chronology of events discussed in the text -- Introduction -- Imperial ethos -- The Gordon cult -- Interlude 1, Zâr and Islam -- Tools for a quiet crusade -- Interlude 2, Colonial Zayran -- "Unconscious anthropologists" -- Interlude 3, Spirit tribes -- Contexts -- Domestic blood and foreign spirits -- North winds and the river -- Cotton business -- 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
- Control code
- on1041857204
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 402 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780691186511
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv39860p
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1041857204
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Civilizing women : British crusades in colonial Sudan, Janice Boddy
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Frequently mentioned names -- Chronology of events discussed in the text -- Introduction -- Imperial ethos -- The Gordon cult -- Interlude 1, Zâr and Islam -- Tools for a quiet crusade -- Interlude 2, Colonial Zayran -- "Unconscious anthropologists" -- Interlude 3, Spirit tribes -- Contexts -- Domestic blood and foreign spirits -- North winds and the river -- Cotton business -- 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
- Control code
- on1041857204
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 402 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780691186511
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv39860p
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1041857204
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Beschneidung
- Besessenheitskult
- British
- British -- Sudan
- British colonies
- Circumcision, Female
- Colonialism
- Cultural policy
- Electronic books
- Female circumcision
- Female circumcision -- Sudan
- Frau
- Frau
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Cultural policy
- Großbritannien
- HISTORY / Africa / East
- Islam
- Islam
- Kolonialismus
- Kolonier -- Storbritannien
- Kulturpolitik
- Kvinnlig könsstympning -- Sudan
- Kvinnor -- Sudan
- Muslim women
- Muslim women -- Sudan
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Sex customs
- Sex customs -- Sudan
- Sexualverhalten
- Social Conditions
- Sudan
- Sudan
- Sudan
- Whitman College -- Memorial bookplates | Class of 1958
- Women
- Women -- Social conditions
- Africa
- Zār
- Zār -- Sudan
- Śarmā, Kṛṣṇalāla, Sūdana
- Women -- Sudan -- Social conditions
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