Gender, sexuality, and colonial modernities /
Gender, sexuality, and colonial modernities /
edited by Antoinette Burton.
- New York : Routledge , 1999
- xiii, 232 p. : ill., 24 cm.
- Routledge research in gender and history ; 2 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents : Cleansing motherhood : hygiene and the culture of domesticity in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1875-1900 -- Modernity, medicine and colonialism : the contagious diseases ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements -- White colonialism and sexual modernity : Australian women in the early twentieth century metropolis -- Local colour : the spectacle of race at Niagara Falls -- Unsettling settlers : colonial migrants and racialised sexuality in interwar Marseilles -- Wanted native views : collecting colonial postcards of India -- Racialising imperial Canada : Indian women and the making of ethnic communities -- Unnecessary crimes and tragedies : race, gender and sexuality in Australian policies of Aboriginal child removal -- Gendering the modern : women and home science in British India -- Gender and "hyper-masculinity" as post-colonial modernity during Indonesia's struggle for independence, 1945 to 1949 -- "Respectability," "modernity" and the policing of "culture" in colonial Ceylon -- Ancient wisdom, modern motherhood : theosophy and the colonial syncretic -- The lineage of the "Indian" modern : rhetoric, agency and the Sarda Act in late colonial India .
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Women--History.
Imperialism--History.
Great Britain--Colonies--History.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents : Cleansing motherhood : hygiene and the culture of domesticity in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1875-1900 -- Modernity, medicine and colonialism : the contagious diseases ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements -- White colonialism and sexual modernity : Australian women in the early twentieth century metropolis -- Local colour : the spectacle of race at Niagara Falls -- Unsettling settlers : colonial migrants and racialised sexuality in interwar Marseilles -- Wanted native views : collecting colonial postcards of India -- Racialising imperial Canada : Indian women and the making of ethnic communities -- Unnecessary crimes and tragedies : race, gender and sexuality in Australian policies of Aboriginal child removal -- Gendering the modern : women and home science in British India -- Gender and "hyper-masculinity" as post-colonial modernity during Indonesia's struggle for independence, 1945 to 1949 -- "Respectability," "modernity" and the policing of "culture" in colonial Ceylon -- Ancient wisdom, modern motherhood : theosophy and the colonial syncretic -- The lineage of the "Indian" modern : rhetoric, agency and the Sarda Act in late colonial India .
0415200687
00267918
GBA0-00988
Women--History.
Imperialism--History.
Great Britain--Colonies--History.
HQ1154.G395