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.

Table of 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.