Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges -- CONTENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges -- Labour -- Commodities -- Fashioning politics -- Mobility and activism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- PART I Labour -- 1 The Sexual Politics of Imperial Expansion: Eunuchs and Indirect Colonial Rule in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North India -- The khwajasarais of early modern Awadh -- Family, sexuality and indirect colonial rule -- Eunuch labour and the sexual politics of imperial expansion -- The making of a Muslim poor: the impacts of colonial modernity on khwajasarais -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Remaking Anglo-Indian Men: Agricultural Labour as Remedy in the British Empire, 1908-38 -- The problem -- First migrations -- Early experiences -- Persistence of a scheme -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 'Robot Farmers' and Cosmopolitan Workers: Technological Masculinity and Agricultural Development in the French Soudan (Mali), 1945-68 -- The beginnings of the Office du Niger -- The turn to mechanised agriculture, 1945-68 -- 'The Office has only to do with men': notions of masculine labour at the Office du Niger -- Neither robots nor 'paysannat noir' -- The cosmopolitan workers' Office du Niger -- Technological men -- Notes -- PART II Commodities -- 4 Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700-60 -- Jamaica: re-configuring the gendered social hierarchy -- Colonial women in a globalising market -- Gender, race and slaveholding -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Fashioning their Place: Dress and Global Imagination in Imperial Sudan -- Historic trade routes and domestic ties -- Transformation under imperial rule -- Satellite dreams -- A living archive -- Notes -- 6 The Transnational Homophile Movement and the Development of Domesticity in Mexico City's Homosexual Community, 1930-70 -- Notes.

PART III Fashioning Politics -- 7 Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c. 1900-40 -- Notes -- 8 'It Gave Us Our Nationality': US Education, the Politics of Dress and Transnational Filipino Student Networks, 1901-45 -- Imperial education and the politics of dress in the colonial Philippines -- Gendering nationalism, nationalising gender abroad in the United States -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 'A Life of Make-Believe': Being Boy Scouts and 'Playing Indian' in British Malaya (1910-42) -- Setting, actors, sources -- 'Making manly (mimic) men'? Colonial proscriptions of Scouting in Malaya -- (Other) imperial play ethics: Malayan Scouts at 'play' -- Epilogue -- Notes -- 10 The Tank Driver who Ran with Poodles: US Visions of Israeli Soldiers and the Cold War Liberal Consensus, 1958-79 -- Responsible masculinity: 1958-67 -- Enviable masculinity: 1967-73 -- Spartan masculinity: 1973-79 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- PART IV Mobility and Activism -- 11 Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women's Rights in the 1930s -- Marta Vergara's feminist evolution -- Popular-Front Pan-American feminism at the Buenos Aires Peace Conferences -- Notes -- 12 Guerrilla Ganja Gun Girls: Policing Black Revolutionaries from Notting Hill to Laventille -- A national family -- 'There can be no black liberation without the liberation of black women' -- Ganja and global delinquency -- 'Total liberation' -- National mourning -- Notes -- 13 Gender and Visuality: Identification Photographs, Respectability and Personhood in Colonial Southern Africa in the 1920s and 1930s -- Introduction - visual histories of gender -- Photographs as archival insertions -- Fragments - South African nation building and its imperial formation -- Visual articulations of gender -- Framing personhood.

Visualising the family as a site of colonial governance -- Transgressions of whiteness - wicked women and the question of racial respectability -- Conclusion -- Notes -- INDEX -- EULA.