Gender, sexuality and colonial modernities / edited by Antoinette Burton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-

Series:

Routledge research in gender and history ; 2.

Routledge research in gender and history ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History.

Women.

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities 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 sexual politics. As a whole, the essays illustrate that modern colonial regimes are never self-evidently hegemonic, but are always in process - subject to disruption and contest - and never finally accomplished; and are therefore unfinished business.

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 / Yael 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-63647-4

1-134-63648-2

1-280-17541-9

0-203-98449-8

9780203984499

OCLC:

475949155