Civilizing Women
British Crusades in Colonial Sudan
Janice Boddy
Explore the complex relationship between British colonial officers and Muslim Sudanese in Civilizing Women. Janice Boddy focuses on the efforts to end female circumcision in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from 1920-1946, revealing how this was tied to other colonial concerns such as slavery and cotton farming. This engaging book delves into the nuanced process of colonizing selfhood and the role of British women in it. Boddy also discusses the fraught relations between political officers, missionaries, and African nationalists. A cautionary tale for those considering contemporary interventions.
Publish Date
2007-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
2007-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.3
ISBN
9780691123059
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2022-04-18T04:09:22.000Z
This book by Janice Boddy is so deeply researched, sensitive, wise, and magisterial. Anyone interested in so-called Pharaonic circumcision (what Egyptians, as I understand, call Sudanese circumcision as it’s not so common in Egypt) should read it, along w. Ellen Gruenbaum’s work – source