Intimate Empires: Body, Race, and Gender in the Modern World

by Tracey Rizzo and Steven Gerontakis

Book Overview

Intimate Empires: Body, Race, and Gender in the Modern World offers an interpretive synthesis of recent scholarship on intersections of gender, race, and empire from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It untangles the embodied experiences and representations of people all over the world in the era of Europe's global dominance. Studies of intimate experiences complicate narratives of imperialism that have traditionally revolved around...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199978344
• ISBN13: 9780199978342
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"