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"Analyzes the crisis indigenous political groups faced in Mexico at the turn of the twenty-first century. Focuses on an indigenous peoples movement in the state of Guerrero that gained unprecedented national and international prominence in the 1990s and yet was defunct by 2002"--Provided by publisher

The introduction of Spanish Christianity to the Central Valley of Mexico brought an understanding of the world that was radically different from the Nahua (Aztec) worldview. The Florentine Codex , a sixteenth-century Spanish Franciscan text, illustrates how the Christian moral system upset traditional Nahua notions of sexuality and proper relations between men and women. With its emphasis on the conflict between good and evil and its explicit gender hierarchy, which put men above women, Christianity challenged Nahua ideas of gender complementarity and a complex, interconnected cosmos. Such a challenge did not bode well for Nahua women, whose status prior to the Spanish invasion became threatened ideologically and literally by the decline of Nahua political and religious institutions.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Bodies, Empires, and World Histories -- I. Thresholds of Modernity: Mapping Genders -- Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad -- An Island of Women: Gender in Qing Travel Writing about Taiwan -- Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500–1770 -- Christian Morality in New Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary -- Eva's Men: Gender and Power at the Cape of Good Hope -- Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in Eighteenth-Century France -- II. Global Empires, Local Encounters -- Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo -- Reproducing Colonialism in British Columbia, 1849–1871 -- Native American and Métis Women as ''Public Mothers'' in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest -- Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere -- Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports, 1884–1916 -- Reproducing the ''French Race'': Immigration and Pronatalism in Early-Twentieth-Century France -- Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938 -- Tattooed Secrets: Women's History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique -- III. The Mobility of Politics and the Politics of Mobility -- An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat Meets Madame Gülnar, 1889 -- Out of India: The Journeys of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901–1930 -- Celibacy, Sexuality, and Nationalism in North India -- Women's Liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926–1941 -- Gender, Power, and U.S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952 -- History and Memory: The ''Comfort Women'' Controversy -- ''One Black Allah'': The Middle East in the Cultural Politics of African American Liberation, 1955–1970 -- Postscript: Bodies, Genders, Empires: Reimagining World Histories -- Index