ISBN:
0203984498
,
9780203984499
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online Ressource (xiii, 232 p.)
,
ill.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Serie:
Routledge research in gender and history 2
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Burton, Antoinette M Gender, sexuality, and colonial modernities
DDC:
305.309
Schlagwort(e):
Imperialism History
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19th century
;
Women History
;
19th century
;
Men History
;
19th century
;
Women History 19th century
;
Men History 19th century
;
Imperialism History 19th century
;
Women history
;
Race Relations history
;
Colonialism history
;
Gender Identity history
;
Imperialism
;
Men
;
Women
;
Frau
;
Geschichte
;
Kolonialismus
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Kurzfassung:
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.
Kurzfassung:
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 sexual politics
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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