Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan Book

List of Illustrations     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Abbreviations     xv
Glossary     xvii
Frequently Mentioned Names     xxi
Chronology of Events Discussed in the Text     xxv
Introduction     1
Imperial Ethos     11
1
The Gordon Cult     13
Interlude 1, Zar and Islam     47
2
Tools for a Quiet Crusade     52
Interlude 2, Colonial Zayran     77
3
"Unconscious Anthropologists"     82
Interlude 3, Spirit Tribes     103
Contexts     107
4
Domestic Blood and Foreign Spirits     109
5
North Winds and the River     128
6
Cotton Business     152
The Crusades     177
7
Training Bodies, Colonizing Minds     179
8
Battling the "Barbarous Custom"     202
9
Of "Enthusiasts" and "Cranks"     232
10
"More Harm than Good"     261
11
The Law     285
12
Conclusion: Civilizing Women     305
Notes     321
References Cited     373
Index     391