Gender, sexuality and colonial modernities

Gender, sexuality and colonial modernities [electronic resource] / edited by Antoinette Burton. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1999. - xiv, 236 p. : ill., ports. - Routledge research in gender and history ; 2 . - Routledge research in gender and history ; 2. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Nayan Shah -- Philippa Levine -- Angela Woollacott -- Karen Dubinsky -- Yaël Simpson Fletcher -- Saloni Mathur -- Enakshi Dua -- Fiona Paisley -- Mary Hancock -- Frances Gouda -- Malathi De Alwis -- Joy Dixon -- Mrinalini Sinha.


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