Table of Contents

Note on Illustrations 1. Genealogies of the Intimate: Movements in Colonial Studies 2. Rethinking Colonial Categories: European Communities and the Boundaries of Rule 3. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender and Morality in the Making of Race 4. Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: Cultural Competence and the Dangers of Metissage 5. A Sentimental Education: Children on the Imperial Divide 6. A Colonial Reading of Foucault: Bourgeois Bodies and Racial Selves 7. Memory-Work in Java: A Cautionary Tale Epilogue. Caveats on Comfort Zones and Comparative Frames Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Ann Laura Stoler, Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is the author of Race and the Education of Desire (1995) and coeditor of Tensions of Empire (California, 1997).

Reviews

"To my knowledge, there simply is no one else writing on questions of colonialism, gender, race, and intimacy who brings this depth and reach of historical and anthropological illumination to bear."-Nancy F. Cott, author of Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation "This new book brings our collective agenda forward with a degree of maturity and flexibility that makes narrow academic preferences both unnecessary and misleading."-Doris Sommer, author of Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas