Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
In Domesticating the Empire, Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Goudabring together twelve essays- most of them original- that probe issues of gender, race, and power in the French and Dutch Empires of the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies.
This collection goes beyond the crudedichotomies of European and indigenous or non-European to examine the meaningsof cross-cultural and interracial interactions in local historical contexts. Thecontributors' analyses are firmly rooted in historical figures and events and employa wde range of primary sources to examine shifting images of femininity andmasculinity, motherhood and fatherhood.