Philippa Levine
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Philippa Judith Amanda Levine, FRAI, FRHistS, is a historian of the British Empire, gender, race, science and technology. She has spent most of her career in the United States and has been Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities and Walter Prescott Webb Professor in History and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Published Works
- Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (2003) (305)
- The Oxford Handbook of The History of Eugenics (2010) (278)
- Gender and Empire (2004) (136)
- The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838-1886 (1986) (94)
- IS COMPARATIVE HISTORY POSSIBLE (2014) (88)
- Venereal disease, prostitution, and the politics of Empire: the case of British India. (1994) (73)
- Western women and imperialism: Complicity and resistance (1993) (73)
- Victorian Feminism, 1850-1900 (1987) (68)
- "Walking the Streets in a Way No Decent Woman Should": Women Police in World War I (1994) (66)
- Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines (2007) (64)
- Feminist Lives in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment (1990) (63)
- AIDS knowledge and risk behaviors among culturally diverse women. (1991) (63)
- States of Undress: Nakedness and the Colonial Imagination (2008) (60)
- THE MULTIPLE JEOPARDY OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER FOR AIDS RISK AMONG WOMEN (1993) (52)
- Imperial Encounters (2018) (51)
- Battle Colors: Race, Sex, and Colonial Soldiery in World War I (2010) (48)
- Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia (2002) (42)
- The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset (2019) (41)
- Women's Suffrage in the British Empire : Citizenship, Nation and Race (2012) (39)
- “So Few Prizes and So Many Blanks”: Marriage and Feminism in Later Nineteenth-Century England (1989) (38)
- Rereading the 1890s: Venereal Disease as “Constitutional Crisis” in Britain and British India (1996) (38)
- Writing Under the Raj: Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947 (review) (2001) (38)
- Introduction: Eugenics and the Modern World (2010) (33)
- Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain (2000) (32)
- Orientalist Sociology and the Creation of Colonial Sexualities (2000) (32)
- "A Multitude of Unchaste Women:" Prostitution in the British Empire (2004) (31)
- Modernity, Medicine, and Colonialism: The Contagious Diseases Ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements (1998) (28)
- Introduction: Why Gender and Empire? (2011) (24)
- Naked Truths: Bodies, Knowledge, and the Erotics of Colonial Power (2013) (21)
- Sexuality, Gender, and Empire (2011) (21)
- Anthropology, Colonialism, and Eugenics (2010) (15)
- :Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. (2005) (14)
- Geographies of Regulation: Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Empire (2010) (13)
- Sexuality and empire (2006) (13)
- Sovereignty and Sexuality: Transnational Perspectives on Colonial Age of Consent Legislation (2007) (12)
- Failure of the Imaginary: Gendered Excess of the Indonesian Nation (2020) (12)
- Consistent contradictions: Prostitution and protective labour legislation in nineteenth‐century England∗ (1994) (12)
- What's British about Gender and Empire? The Problem of Exceptionalism (2007) (11)
- Vice in the Barracks. Medicine, the Military and the Making of Colonial India, 1780–1868, written by Erica Wald (2015) (11)
- Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction (2017) (11)
- Captives: The Story of Britain's Pursuit of Empire and How Its Soldiers and Civilians were Held Captive by the Dream of Global Supremacy, 1600–1850 (2005) (11)
- South Asian Women in the Gulf: Families and Futures Reconfigured (2002) (10)
- Women at Risk for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (1992) (10)
- Roundtable: Twentieth-century British History in North America (2010) (9)
- Learning and a Liberal Education: The Study of Modern History in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Manchester, 1800–1914 (1988) (8)
- Women and Prostitution: Metaphor, Reality, History (1993) (6)
- Substance Use among Women at Risk for HIV Infection (1992) (6)
- "Racial poison": drink, male vice, and degeneration in first-wave feminism (2012) (5)
- Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers. (1991) (5)
- Love, friendship, and feminism in later 19th-century England (1990) (5)
- Gender, Labour, War and Empire: Essays on Modern Britain (2008) (5)
- PUBLIC HEALTH, VENEREAL DISEASE AND COLONIAL MEDICINE IN THE LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY (2001) (4)
- Uniting the kingdom (2013) (4)
- The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories (2012) (4)
- Gender, Paradoxical Space, and Critical Spectatorship in Vietnamese Film: The Works of Dang Nhat Minh (2020) (3)
- Weathering the Storm: Working-Class Families from the Industrial Revolution to the Fertility Decline. By Wally Seccombe (New York: Verso, 1993. vii plus 286pp.) (1995) (3)
- Beyond sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1860-1950 (2007) (3)
- The Kingdom of Kongo and the Thirty Years’ War (2016) (2)
- The City between the Global State: Architecture and the People in Singapore’s Gendered Imaginations (2020) (2)
- Prostitution, Race, and Empire (2013) (2)
- Nurturing, Gender Ideologies, and Bangkok’s Foodscape (2002) (2)
- Discipline and Pleasure: Response (2004) (2)
- The British Empire (2019) (2)
- Race and the Regulation of Prostitution: Comparing Public Health in the U.S. and Greater Britain (2009) (2)
- Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease (2002) (2)
- Empire State of Mind: Articulations of British Culture in the Empire, 1707-1997 (2011) (1)
- Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of The King and I Governess (review) (2009) (1)
- Introduction: Marking Times and Territories (2002) (1)
- The Cordon Sanitaire: Mobility and Space in the Regulation of Colonial Prostitution (2020) (1)
- Diane B. Paul, John Stenhouse and Hamish G. Spencer (eds), Eugenics at the Edges of Empire. New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa (2019) (1)
- Naked natives and noble savages: The cultural work of nakedness in imperial Britain (2017) (1)
- Gender, Labour, War and Empire (2009) (1)
- Britain in India (2013) (1)
- Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance. Richard JenkynsThe Victorians and Renaissance Italy. Hilary Fraser (1995) (1)
- Place and Displacement: Figuring the Thai Village in an Age of Rural Development (2002) (1)
- The Mobile Camera: Bodies, Anthropologists, and the Victorian Optic (2015) (1)
- Modernity, vice, and the problem of nakedness (2016) (1)
- Diasporic Alienness and Belonging: Selected Indian-American Cultural Expressions (2020) (1)
- Shani D’Cruze. Crimes of Outrage: Sex, Violence, and Victorian Working Women. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press. 1998. Pp. viii, 263. $16.50 paper. ISBN 0-87580-578-7. (1999) (1)
- Global growth (2019) (1)
- Robert Bickers. Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. New York: Columbia University Press. 2003. Pp. 409. $32.50 (2005) (1)
- Carl Bridge and Kent Fedorowich, eds. The British World: Diaspora, Culture and Identity . London: Frank Cass Publishers; dist. by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2003. Pp. 240. $26.50 paper. ISBN 0-7146-8377-9. (2005) (0)
- Series editors’ foreword (2010) (0)
- Global Sex, Local Sex: Morality Tales for the Ages (2012) (0)
- Kanner Barbara. Women in English Social History, 1800–1914: A Guide to Research. Volumes I, II, and III. New York: Garland Publishing. 1990. Pp. lvi, 871; 885; 215. $100.00, $122.00, $32.00. (1991) (0)
- Becoming Imperial Citizens. Indians in the Mid-Victorian EmpireSUKANYA BANERJEEMarriage and Modernity. Family Values in Colonial BengalROCHONA MAJUMDAR (2013) (0)
- Jewish Diaspora through Colonial Spaces: Negotiating Identity and Forging Community (2020) (0)
- Greenberg Reva Pollack. Fabian Couples, Feminist Issues. (Outstanding Dissertations in British History.) New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1987. Pp. viii, 417. $65.00. (1989) (0)
- onathan Schneer, London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. ix. + 336 pp. $29.95 cloth. (2001) (0)
- THEMATIC REVIEWS.: A Conspiracy of Silence? Editing The Texts of Feminism (1989) (0)
- Settling the ‘New World’ (2019) (0)
- Public and private paradox: Prostitution and the State (1993) (0)
- After America (2019) (0)
- Comment (2003) (0)
- Romanticism and Colonial Disease (2003) (0)
- Teaching Medical History: Introduction (1999) (0)
- Designing Woman, Designing North Borneo (2020) (0)
- Traveling High and Low: Verticality, Social Position, and the Making of Pahari Genders (2020) (0)
- Chocolate, Women and Empire: A Social and Cultural History (review) (2012) (0)
- Jane Austen and the state: by Mary Evans, 97 pages. Methuen, New York, 1987. Price paperback US$6.95 (1989) (0)
- Women, state and revolution: Essays on power and gender in Europe since 1789: edited by Sian Reynolds, 190 pages. Wheatsheaf, Brighton, 1986. Price hardbound Br£18.95, paperback Br£7.95 (1988) (0)
- Shanley Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850-1895. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1989. Pp. x, 213. $25.00. (1990) (0)
- :Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1914 (2023) (0)
- Announcements (1975) (0)
- Our work, our lives, our words: edited by Leonore Davidoff and Belinda Westover, 189 pages. Macmillan, London, 1986. Price hardbound Br£20.00, paperback Br£6.95 (1988) (0)
- What Difference Did Empire Make? Sex, Gender and Sanitary Reform in the British Empire (2013) (0)
- Metamorphosis and the Muse. A Review Article (1988) (0)
- dea birkett. Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers. New York: Basil Blackwell. 1989. Pp. xii, 300. $24.95 (1991) (0)
- Dyck , Erika − Facing Eugenics: Reproduction. Sterilization and the Politics of Choice. (2014) (0)
- Announcements (1985) (0)
- When Method Matters: Women Historians, Feminist Historians (1991) (0)
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought ed. by Michael Ruse (review) (2016) (0)
- A geneticist tackles eugenics: Control: The dark history and troubling present of eugenicsAdamRutherford, 2022. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 278 pp. ISBN 9781474622400/9781474622387/9781. £12.99/£12.99/£19.99 (ebook/hardback/audiobook) (2022) (0)
- Age of Imperial Crisis (2012) (0)
- Being ruled (2019) (0)
- Ruling an empire (2002) (0)
- Heeney Brian. The Women's Movement in the Church of England, 1850–1930. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York. 1988. Pp. xi, 144. $42.00. (1989) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Barbara Caine.BOMBAY TO BLOOMSBURY: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE STRACHEY FAMILY. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (2005) (0)
- Contesting empire (2019) (0)
- Four works on the history of early feminism in Britain, France and the United States of America. (1986) (0)
- Kimberley Reynolds and Nicola Humble. Victorian Heroines: Representations of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art . New York: New York University Press. 1993. $16.95 paper. ISBN 0-8147-7362-1. (1994) (0)
- Judith Walkowitz and the Rise of Feminist History (2017) (0)
- The Study of the Past in the Victorian Age. Edited by Vanessa Brand (1999) (0)
- Eileen Janes Yeo. The Contest for Social Science: Relations and Representations of Gender and Class . London: Rivers Oram Press; distributed by Paul a Co. Publishers Consortium, Inc., Concord, Mass. 1996. Pp. xx, 396. $55.00. ISBN 1-85489-068-9. (1997) (0)
- Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj, c. 1800-1947 (review) (2002) (0)
- Cora Kaplan—explicitly connect the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to contemporary Britain with regard to the involvement of immigrants in the constitution of “home.” Among other things, they complicate in interesting ways the distinction between “colonial” and “postcolonial.” Feminist pers (2008) (0)
- Root of bitterness: Documents of the social history of American women: edited by Nancy Cott, 376 pages. Northeastern University Press, Boston. 1986. Price hardbound Br£25.00, paperback Br£8.45 (1987) (0)
- Paula Bartley. Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914 . (Women’s and Gender History.) New York: Routledge. 2000. Pp. xi, 229. $25.99. ISBN 0-415-21457-2. (2001) (0)
- Work, love and politics: Recent studies of nineteenth‐century British women (1988) (0)
- Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, and Jane Rendall. Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867 . New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 303. $24.95. ISBN 0-521-57653-9. (2001) (0)
- Jayawardena Kumari. The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule. New York: Routledge. 1995. Pp. x, 310. $59.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. ISBN 0-415-91105-2. (1996) (0)
- Whose India?: The Independence Struggle in British and Indian Fiction and History (review) (2005) (0)
- Review: Romanticism and Colonial Disease (2003) (0)
- Livres reçus/Books received (2012) (0)
- Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family (review) (2006) (0)
- Slaves, merchants and trade (2013) (0)
- Review: Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease (2002) (0)
- Immigrant Dreams and Nightmares: South Asian Domestic Workers in North America in a Time of Global Mobility (2002) (0)
- Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 1998 (1999) (0)
- Gender and sexuality (2019) (0)
- The Construction of Empire: Gender, Race, and Nation in Europe's Imperial Past (2003) (0)
- Sports violence and social crisis. (1985) (0)
- The Black Hole that (N)Ever Was (2014) (0)
- Facing Eugenics: Reproduction. Sterilization and the Politics of Choice by Erika Dyck (review) (2015) (0)
- Book Reviews (1999) (0)
- Decolonisation (2019) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Nancy L. Paxton.WRITING UNDER THE RAJ: GENDER, RACE, AND RAPE IN THE BRITISH COLONIAL IMAGINATION, 1830-1947. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 1999. (2001) (0)
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