Gender, sexuality and colonial modernities [electronic resource] / edited by Antoinette Burton.
This book considers the ways in which modernity was constructed, in all its incompleteness, through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and equally diverse methodologies, the authors trace modernity's unstable foundations in the slippages and ruptures of colonial gender and sexua...
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| Language: | English |
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1999.
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| Series: | Routledge research in gender and history ;
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Table of Contents:
- Cleansing motherhood : hygiene and the culture of domesticity in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1875-1900 / Nayan Shah
- Modernity, medicine and colonialism : the contagious diseases ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements / Philippa Levine
- White colonialism and sexual modernity : Australian women in the early twentieth century metropolis / Angela Woollacott
- Local colour : the spectacle of race at Niagara Falls / Karen Dubinsky
- Unsettling settlers : colonial migrants and racialised sexuality in interwar Marseilles / Yaël Simpson Fletcher
- Wanted native views : collecting colonial postcards of India / Saloni Mathur
- Racialising imperial Canada : Indian women and the making of ethnic communities / Enakshi Dua
- Unnecessary crimes and tragedies : race, gender and sexuality in Australian policies of Aboriginal child removal / Fiona Paisley
- Gendering the modern : women and home science in British India / Mary Hancock
- Gender and "hyper-masculinity" as post-colonial modernity during Indonesia's struggle for independence, 1945 to 1949 / Frances Gouda
- "Respectability," "modernity" and the policing of "culture" in colonial Ceylon / Malathi De Alwis
- Ancient wisdom, modern motherhood : theosophy and the colonial syncretic / Joy Dixon
- The lineage of the "Indian" modern : rhetoric, agency and the Sarda Act in late colonial India / Mrinalini Sinha.