Intimate Relationships Across Boundaries

ISBN-13: 9780367751333 / Miękka / 2023 / 242 str.

Opis

This collection investigates intermarriage and related relationships around the world since the eighteenth century.

Spis treści

Introduction: Intimate relationships across boundaries: global and comparative perspectives

Julia Moses and Julia Woesthoff

1. From faith to race? ‘Mixed marriage’ and the politics of difference in Imperial Germany

Julia Moses

2. ‘Mixt marriages’: Ethnic and Religious Intermarriage among German-Speakers in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania

Marie Basile McDaniel

3. Religious difference, nationhood and citizenship in Turkey: public reactions to an interreligious marriage in 1962

Sinem Adar

4. Regulating Dutch–Chinese marriages and relationships in the Netherlands (1920–1945)

Betty de Hart

5. Undesired intimacy: German–Chinese couples in Germany (1900s–1940s)

Christoph Lorke

6. ‘Not always logical’: binational/biracial marriages in Britain, 1900–1940

Ginger S. Frost

7. ‘Marrying light’: skin colour, gender and marriage in Jamaica, c. 1918–1980

Henrice Altink

8. Interracial marriages in twentieth-century Cape Town: evidence from Anglican marriage records

Johan Fourie and Kris Inwood

9. A ‘class of no political weight’? Interracial Marriage, Mixed Race Children and Land Rights in Southern New Zealand, 1840s-1880s

Angela Wanhalla and Kate Stevens

O autorze

Julia Moses is Reader in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UK, and co-editor of Gender & History. Works include Civilizing Marriage: Family, Nation and State in the German Empire (forthcoming); The First Modern Risk: Workplace Accidents and the Origins of European Social States (Cambridge, 2018) and Marriage, Law and Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Julia Woesthoff is associate professor at DePaul University, USA. She has published a variety of articles related to questions of intermarriage between German Christian women and foreign Muslim men in postwar West Germany.