Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan

by 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 documents and popular culture for ethnographic details to interleave with observations from northern Sudan, where women's participation in z?r...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691123055
• ISBN13: 9780691123059
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"