Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial SudanCivilizing 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. |
Contents
Introduction | xxxi |
Imperical Ethos | 9 |
The Gordon Cult | 11 |
Interlude 1 Zär and Islam | 45 |
Tools for a Quiet Crusade | 50 |
Interlude 2 Colonial Zayran | 75 |
Unconscious Anthropologists | 80 |
Interlude 3 Spirit Tribes | 101 |
The Crusades | 175 |
Training Bodies Colonizing Minds | 177 |
Battling the Barbarous Custom | 200 |
Of Enthusiasts and cranks | 230 |
More Harm than Good | 259 |
The Law | 283 |
Conclusion Civilizing Women | 303 |
Notes | 319 |
Contexts | 105 |
Domestic Blood and Foreign Spirits | 107 |
North Winds and the River | 126 |
Cotton Business | 150 |
References Cited | 371 |
Index | 389 |
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