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

• Superior document: Routledge research in gender and history ; 2
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge research in gender and history ; 2.
• Physical Description: xiv, 236 p. :; ill., ports.
• Other title: 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 /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 0203984498; 0415200687
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Antoinette Burton.