Gender, sexuality, and colonial modernities
By: edited by Antoinette Burton.
Contributors: Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-
Series: Routledge research in gender and history ;; 2
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Women -- History.; Imperialism -- History.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cleansing motherhood : hygiene and the culture of domesticity in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1875-1900 / Nayan Shah; title: Modernity, medicine and colonialism : the contagious diseases ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements / Philippa Levine; title: White colonialism and sexual modernity : Australian women in the early twentieth century metropolis / Angela Woollacott; title: Local colour : the spectacle of race at Niagara Falls / Karen Dubinsky; title: Unsettling settlers : colonial migrants and racialised sexuality in interwar Marseilles / Yaël Simpson Fletcher; title: Wanted native views : collecting colonial postcards of India / Saloni Mathur; title: Racialising imperial Canada : Indian women and the making of ethnic communities / Enakshi Dua; title: Unnecessary crimes and tragedies : race, gender and sexuality in Australian policies of Aboriginal child removal / Fiona Paisley; title: Gendering the modern : women and home science in British India / Mary Hancock; title: Gender and "hyper-masculinity" as post-colonial modernity during Indonesia's struggle for independence, 1945 to 1949 / Frances Gouda; title: "Respectability," "modernity" and the policing of "culture" in colonial Ceylon / Malathi De Alwis; title: Ancient wisdom, modern motherhood : theosophy and the colonial syncretic / Joy Dixon; title: The lineage of the "Indian" modern : rhetoric, agency and the Sarda Act in late colonial India / Mrinalini Sinha.