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Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan Janice Boddy Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007 Reviewed by Rebecca Henriksen Janice Boddy’s Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan critically examines how British colonial health and education projects altered modes of embodiment …

Kia Lilly Caldwell, Kathleen Coll, Tracy Fisher, Renya Ramirez, and Lok Siu, editors New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009. Reviewed by Erica Lorraine Williams Gendered Citizenships is an excellent example of cutting-edge scholarship that makes significant contributions to citizenship and women’s …

Nandini Gunewardena and Ann Kingsolver (eds) Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research, 2007 Reviewed by Jennifer DeWan, PhD Much of the research and writing on “globalization” that has emerged in the last several decades tends to treat the concept as …

Parin Dossa Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009 Reviewed by Onur Kovanci Dr. Parin Dossa, a Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, British Colombia treats her readers to another intriguing and insightful book after her first book, Politics and …