Bodies beyond Binaries

Table of Contents

Unframing the Binary: Introducing Bodies Beyond Binaries - Kate Imy, Teresa Segura-Garcia, Elena Valdameri and Erica Wald

Part 1: Ruled and Unruly
Chapter 1. Trans without Borders: Castration and the Politics of Historical Knowledge - Howard Chiang
Chapter 2. Embodiment and Biomedical Authority in South Asia: Reading Objectification and Subversion in the Colonial Clinic - Samiksha Sehrawat
Chapter 3. The Body of the Burmese Muslim - Chie Ikeya

Part 2: Emotional and Trained
Chapter 4. Bodies, Emotions, Labour. The Jamia Millia Islamia and the New Education Movement - Margrit Pernau
Chapter 5. A Healthy Body for a Healthy Mind? The Corporal Impact of Student Mobility from and Towards Indochina, 1900-1945 - Sara Legrandjacques
Chapter 6. Wrestling for the Humankind of the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s and Mirra Alfassa’s Politics of Physical Education in Pondicherry - Julia Hauser

Part 3: Mobility and Confinement
Chapter 7. Masculinity on the Move from Barcelona to Bombay: The Men of the Catalan Bourgeoisie and their Bodily Encounters in Colonial India - Teresa Segura-Garcia
Chapter 8. Purdah, National Degeneration, and Pelvic Politics: Women’s Physical Exercise in Colonial India, c. 1900–1947 - Elena Valdameri
Chapter 9. Captive Bodies: Soldier and Civilian Internment in the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1942-1945 - Kate Imy

Part 4: Respectability and Deviancy
Chapter 10. Pigsticking: the ‘Noble’ Indian Boar and Colonial Constructions of Elite Masculinity - Erica Wald
Chapter 11. The Many Lives of the European ‘vagrant’ in colonial Singapore, c. 1890-1940 - Zhi Qing Denise Lim
Chapter 12. Exhibiting Civilization. The Comité Revolucionario Filipino and the Portraits of Filipino Bodies and Minds, 1898-1899 - Laura Diaz-Esteve

Afterword - Willemijn Ruberg
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index