Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Bodies, Empires and World Histories / Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton 1 I. Thresholds of Modernity: Mapping Genders Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad / Rosalind O'Hanlon 19 An Island of Women: Gender in the Qing Travel Writing about Taiwan / Emma Jinhua Teng 38 Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500-1700 / Jennifer L. Morgan 54 Christian Morality in Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary / Rebecca Overmeyer-Velazquez 67 Eva's Men: Gender and Power at the Cape of Good Hope / Julia C. Wells 84 Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in the Eighteenth-Century France / Sean Quinlan 106 II. Global Empires, Local Encounters Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo / Mary Ann Fay 125 Reproducing Colonialism in British Columbia, 1849-1871 / Adele Perry 143 Native American and Metis as Mothers in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy 164 Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere / Mrinalini Sinha 183 Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports, 1884-1916 / Patrick F. McDevitt 201 Reproducing the French Race: Immigration and Pronationalism in Early-Twentieth Century France / Elisa Camiscioli 219 Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938 / Fiona Paisley 234 Tattooed Secrets: Women's History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique / Heidi Gengenbach 253 III. The Mobility of Politics and the Politics of Mobility An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmad Midhat Meets Madame Gulnar, 1889 / Carter Vaughn Findley 277 Out of India: The Journey of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901-1930 / Siobhan Lambert Hurley 293 Celibacy, Sexuality, and Nationalism in North India / Joseph S. Alter 310 Women's Liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926-1941 / Shoshana Keller 321 Gender, Powers, and U. S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 / Mire Koikari 342 History and Memory: The Comfort Women Controversy / Hyun Sook Kim 363 One Black Allah: The Middle East in the Cultural Politics of African American Liberation, 1955-1970 / Melani McAllister 383 Postscript: Bodies, Genders, Empires: Reimagining World Histories / Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton 405 Contributors 425 Index 441