Lynn M Thomas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 104055 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lynn M Thomas |
| NOMBRES | Lynn M |
| APELLIDO | Thomas |
| FIRMA | THOMAS L M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Washington |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 184 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Introduction
Consumer culture and 'black is beautiful' in apartheid South Africa and early postcolonial Kenya
Engaging the 'method of connective comparison', this article examines linkages between consumer culture and political debates in apartheid South Africa and early postcolonial Kenya. It does so by considering the history of skin lighteners, commodities that were both common and controversial. Largely unnoticed by commentators at the time, the growth of a black consumer market for skin lighteners in Kenya was tied to the earlier emergence of such a…
Introduction
Tanisha C. Ford. Liberated Threads
Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul is an ambitious and wide-ranging book that accomplishes a great deal as Tanisha C. Ford explores how, between 1954 and 1994, black women forged a global style of soul. Female performers in the U.S. together with antiracist activists crafted a style that re-aestheticized the black body by challenging centuries of racist stereotypes and middle-class notions of respectability. Th…
Historicising Agency
Why has ‘agency’ been such a tenacious concept in historical scholarship on women and gender, and what have been the consequences on this tenacity? This essay tackles these questions and proposes, through a brief examination of the history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond, how agency might be pushed in more surprising, more analytically productive directions. Too often agency slips from being a conceptual tool or starting point to a …
Modernity's Failings, Political Claims, and Intermediate Concepts
AFRICA HAS LONG BEEN FOUNDATIONAL to discussions of the modern.For many Enlightenment thinkers, "Negroes" embodied the antithesis of modern reason.In the nineteenth century, Georg Hegel posited Africa as outside of "universal history."Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud ironically deployed "fetish," a term developed by European travelers and traders to gloss West Africans' seemingly irrational beliefs, to diagnose the ills of modern life.In a somewhat mo…
Love in Africa
In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics. Yet love in has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life - a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality…
The Modern Girl Around the World
Does the Age Make the King or the King Make the Age? Exploring the Relationship between the King and the Yugas in the Mahabharata
This article explores different ways in which the assertion that the king makes the age can be understood. It begins by examining the seemingly obvious interpretation of these statements as metaphors to stress the importance of the king, and points out that there are a number of conceptual and textual problems with this. The remainder of the article goes on to explore the possibility that they may have been intended literally. The surprisingly fr…
The Modern Girl and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa
This essay rethinks the gender history and historiography of interwar sub-Saharan Africa by deploying the heuristic device of the ‘modern girl’ to consider how global circuits of representation and commerce informed this period of gender tumult. This device has been developed by a research group at the University of Washington to understand the global emergence during the 1920s and 1930s of female figures identified by their cosmopolitan look, th…
The Modern Girl around the World
Our research collaboration examines how the Modern Girl emerged as a global phenomenon in the first half of the twentieth century. By wearing provocative fashions and pursuing romantic love, Modern Girls everywhere appeared to disregard the roles of dutiful daughter, wife and mother. We develop the Modern Girl as a heuristic category that allows new insights into forces of globalisation and manifestations of gendered modernity. Through a case stu…
Peace Operations and the Need to Prioritize the Rule of Law through Legal System Reform
Today it seems everyone in the international community who has spent anywhere from two weeks to two years to examine legal system reform in either Somalia or Bosnia has figured it out. Unfortunately, most policymakers in today's real-world peace operations have not figured out how to incorporate the connection between genuine peace and legal system reform in their priority plans for implementing peace operations. It is essential that legal system…
Politics of the Womb
Politics of the Womb
In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance—and complex ramifications—of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. This innovative book enric…
Women in African Colonial Histories (review)
Reviewed by: Women in African Colonial Histories Lynn M. Thomas Women in African Colonial Histories. Edited by Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Women in African Colonial Histories showcases the very best of Africanist scholarship on women and colonialism. Following in the tradition of several edited volumes on African women that appeared between the mid-1970s and late 1980s 1, this volu…
Politics of the Womb
Politics of the Womb
The Politics of the Womb
This article examines reproductive struggles and debates in late colonial and early postcolonial Kenya by reconstructing the history of the short-lived Affiliation Act, a law that granted all single women the right to sue the fathers of their children for paternity support. In 1959, the colonial government enacted this racially inclusive law in a bid to address the social problem of "illegitimacy" through familial channels, and to demonstrate the…
Imperial Concerns and ‘Women's Affairs’
During the colonial period, European officers undertook a series of campaigns in conjunction with African officials to regulate the severity of clitoridectomy and to alter the timing of female initiation in Meru, Kenya. While their efforts to ban the more drastic forms of clitoridectomy contributed to the government's stated objective of gradually eliminating the practice, this anti-clitoridectomy stance was compromised by their parallel efforts …
Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself)”
Those of the iron‐wedge knife ( ciorunya ), stay at the side, you. Do not abuse those of the razor blade ( ciokaembe ), you. A circumcised girl without water on the stomach when guarded by the Government. A circumcised girl without water on the stomach when guarded by the Government. 1
Politics of the Womb
The Modern Girl and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa
This essay rethinks the gender history and historiography of interwar sub-Saharan Africa by deploying the heuristic device of the ‘modern girl’ to consider how global circuits of representation and commerce informed this period of gender tumult. This device has been developed by a research group at the University of Washington to understand the global emergence during the 1920s and 1930s of female figures identified by their cosmopolitan look, th…
Historicising Agency
Why has ‘agency’ been such a tenacious concept in historical scholarship on women and gender, and what have been the consequences on this tenacity? This essay tackles these questions and proposes, through a brief examination of the history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond, how agency might be pushed in more surprising, more analytically productive directions. Too often agency slips from being a conceptual tool or starting point to a …
Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself)”
Those of the iron‐wedge knife ( ciorunya ), stay at the side, you. Do not abuse those of the razor blade ( ciokaembe ), you. A circumcised girl without water on the stomach when guarded by the Government. A circumcised girl without water on the stomach when guarded by the Government. 1
The Modern Girl around the World
Our research collaboration examines how the Modern Girl emerged as a global phenomenon in the first half of the twentieth century. By wearing provocative fashions and pursuing romantic love, Modern Girls everywhere appeared to disregard the roles of dutiful daughter, wife and mother. We develop the Modern Girl as a heuristic category that allows new insights into forces of globalisation and manifestations of gendered modernity. Through a case stu…
Imperial Concerns and ‘Women's Affairs’
During the colonial period, European officers undertook a series of campaigns in conjunction with African officials to regulate the severity of clitoridectomy and to alter the timing of female initiation in Meru, Kenya. While their efforts to ban the more drastic forms of clitoridectomy contributed to the government's stated objective of gradually eliminating the practice, this anti-clitoridectomy stance was compromised by their parallel efforts …
Consumer culture and 'black is beautiful' in apartheid South Africa and early postcolonial Kenya
Engaging the 'method of connective comparison', this article examines linkages between consumer culture and political debates in apartheid South Africa and early postcolonial Kenya. It does so by considering the history of skin lighteners, commodities that were both common and controversial. Largely unnoticed by commentators at the time, the growth of a black consumer market for skin lighteners in Kenya was tied to the earlier emergence of such a…
Introduction
Does the Age Make the King or the King Make the Age? Exploring the Relationship between the King and the Yugas in the Mahabharata
This article explores different ways in which the assertion that the king makes the age can be understood. It begins by examining the seemingly obvious interpretation of these statements as metaphors to stress the importance of the king, and points out that there are a number of conceptual and textual problems with this. The remainder of the article goes on to explore the possibility that they may have been intended literally. The surprisingly fr…
The Politics of the Womb
This article examines reproductive struggles and debates in late colonial and early postcolonial Kenya by reconstructing the history of the short-lived Affiliation Act, a law that granted all single women the right to sue the fathers of their children for paternity support. In 1959, the colonial government enacted this racially inclusive law in a bid to address the social problem of "illegitimacy" through familial channels, and to demonstrate the…
Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself)”
Those of the iron‐wedge knife ( ciorunya ), stay at the side, you. Do not abuse those of the razor blade ( ciokaembe ), you. A circumcised girl without water on the stomach when guarded by the Government. A circumcised girl without water on the stomach when guarded by the Government. 1
Imperial Concerns and ‘Women's Affairs’
During the colonial period, European officers undertook a series of campaigns in conjunction with African officials to regulate the severity of clitoridectomy and to alter the timing of female initiation in Meru, Kenya. While their efforts to ban the more drastic forms of clitoridectomy contributed to the government's stated objective of gradually eliminating the practice, this anti-clitoridectomy stance was compromised by their parallel efforts …
The Politics of the Womb
This article examines reproductive struggles and debates in late colonial and early postcolonial Kenya by reconstructing the history of the short-lived Affiliation Act, a law that granted all single women the right to sue the fathers of their children for paternity support. In 1959, the colonial government enacted this racially inclusive law in a bid to address the social problem of "illegitimacy" through familial channels, and to demonstrate the…
Politics of the Womb
In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance—and complex ramifications—of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. This innovative book enric…
Women in African Colonial Histories (review)
Reviewed by: Women in African Colonial Histories Lynn M. Thomas Women in African Colonial Histories. Edited by Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Women in African Colonial Histories showcases the very best of Africanist scholarship on women and colonialism. Following in the tradition of several edited volumes on African women that appeared between the mid-1970s and late 1980s 1, this volu…
Politics of the Womb
Politics of the Womb
Peace Operations and the Need to Prioritize the Rule of Law through Legal System Reform
Today it seems everyone in the international community who has spent anywhere from two weeks to two years to examine legal system reform in either Somalia or Bosnia has figured it out. Unfortunately, most policymakers in today's real-world peace operations have not figured out how to incorporate the connection between genuine peace and legal system reform in their priority plans for implementing peace operations. It is essential that legal system…
Politics of the Womb
The Modern Girl around the World
Our research collaboration examines how the Modern Girl emerged as a global phenomenon in the first half of the twentieth century. By wearing provocative fashions and pursuing romantic love, Modern Girls everywhere appeared to disregard the roles of dutiful daughter, wife and mother. We develop the Modern Girl as a heuristic category that allows new insights into forces of globalisation and manifestations of gendered modernity. Through a case stu…
The Modern Girl and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa
This essay rethinks the gender history and historiography of interwar sub-Saharan Africa by deploying the heuristic device of the ‘modern girl’ to consider how global circuits of representation and commerce informed this period of gender tumult. This device has been developed by a research group at the University of Washington to understand the global emergence during the 1920s and 1930s of female figures identified by their cosmopolitan look, th…
Does the Age Make the King or the King Make the Age? Exploring the Relationship between the King and the Yugas in the Mahabharata
This article explores different ways in which the assertion that the king makes the age can be understood. It begins by examining the seemingly obvious interpretation of these statements as metaphors to stress the importance of the king, and points out that there are a number of conceptual and textual problems with this. The remainder of the article goes on to explore the possibility that they may have been intended literally. The surprisingly fr…
The Modern Girl Around the World
Love in Africa
In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics. Yet love in has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life - a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality…
Modernity's Failings, Political Claims, and Intermediate Concepts
AFRICA HAS LONG BEEN FOUNDATIONAL to discussions of the modern.For many Enlightenment thinkers, "Negroes" embodied the antithesis of modern reason.In the nineteenth century, Georg Hegel posited Africa as outside of "universal history."Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud ironically deployed "fetish," a term developed by European travelers and traders to gloss West Africans' seemingly irrational beliefs, to diagnose the ills of modern life.In a somewhat mo…
Historicising Agency
Why has ‘agency’ been such a tenacious concept in historical scholarship on women and gender, and what have been the consequences on this tenacity? This essay tackles these questions and proposes, through a brief examination of the history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond, how agency might be pushed in more surprising, more analytically productive directions. Too often agency slips from being a conceptual tool or starting point to a …
Tanisha C. Ford. Liberated Threads
Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul is an ambitious and wide-ranging book that accomplishes a great deal as Tanisha C. Ford explores how, between 1954 and 1994, black women forged a global style of soul. Female performers in the U.S. together with antiracist activists crafted a style that re-aestheticized the black body by challenging centuries of racist stereotypes and middle-class notions of respectability. Th…
Introduction
Consumer culture and 'black is beautiful' in apartheid South Africa and early postcolonial Kenya
Engaging the 'method of connective comparison', this article examines linkages between consumer culture and political debates in apartheid South Africa and early postcolonial Kenya. It does so by considering the history of skin lighteners, commodities that were both common and controversial. Largely unnoticed by commentators at the time, the growth of a black consumer market for skin lighteners in Kenya was tied to the earlier emergence of such a…
Introduction
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