Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities

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ISBN: 9780415200684 | 0415200687
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/2/1999

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This book considers the ways in which modernity was constructed, in all its incompleteness, through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and equally diverse methodologies, the authors trace modernity's unstable foundations in the slippages and ruptures of colonial gender and sexual politics.

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List of figures	p. ix
List of contributors	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction: the unfinished business of colonial modernities	p. 1
Colonial modernity, sexuality and space: mapping new terrains	p. 17
Cleansing motherhood: hygiene and the culture of domesticity in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1875-1900	p. 19
Modernity, medicine and colonialism: the contagious diseases ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements	p. 35
White colonialism and sexual modernity: Australian women in the early twentieth century metropolis	p. 49
Spectacles of racialised modernity: representation and cultural production	p. 65
Local colour: the spectacle of race at Niagara Falls	p. 67
Unsettling settlers: colonial migrants and racialised sexuality in interwar Marseilles	p. 80
Wanted native views: collecting colonial postcards of India	p. 95
Domestic contingencies and the gendered nation	p. 117
Racialising Imperial Canada: Indian women and the making of ethnic communities	p. 119
'Unnecessary crimes and tragedies': race, gender and sexuality in Australian policies of Aboriginal child removal	p. 134
Gendering the modern: women and Home Science in British India	p. 148
Gender and 'hyper-masculinity' as post-colonial modernity during Indonesia's struggle for independence, 1945 to 1949	p. 161
Colonial modernities and syncretic traditions: negotiating new identities	p. 175
'Respectability', 'modernity' and the policing of 'culture' in colonial Ceylon	p. 177
Ancient wisdom, modern motherhood: theosophy and the colonial syncretic	p. 193
The lineage of the 'Indian' modern: rhetoric, agency and the Sarda Act in late colonial India	p. 207
Index	p. 222
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