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

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Superior document:Routledge research in gender and history ; 2
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Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
Series:Routledge research in gender and history ; 2.
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Physical Description:xiv, 236 p. :; ill., ports.
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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.