Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities

by Antoinette Burton (Editor)

Overview

Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities 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. As a whole, the essays illustrate that modern colonial regimes are never self-evidently hegemonic, but are always in process - subject to disruption and contest - and never finally accomplished; and are therefore unfinished business.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134636471
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/05/2005
Series:	Routledge Research in Gender and History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	902 KB

About the Author

Antoinette Burton

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: The Unfinished Business of Colonial Modernities Antoinette Burton Part I: Colonial Modernity, Sexuality and Space: Mapping New Terrains 1. Cleansing Motherhood: Hygiene and the Culture of Domesticity in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1875-1900. Nayan Shah, University of New York, Binghampton 2. Modernity, Medicine and Colonialism: The Contagious Diseases Ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements Philippa Levine, University of South California, USA 3. White Colonialism and Sexual Modernity: Australian Women in the Early 20th Century Metropolis Angela Woollacott, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA Part II. Spectacles of Racialised Modernity: Representation and Cultural Production 4. Local Colour: The Spectacle of Race at Niagara Falls Karen Dubinsky, Queens University, Ontario, Canada 5. Unsettling Settlers: Colonial Migrants and Racialised Sexuality in Interwar Marseilles Yael Simpson Fletcher, Emory University, Georgia, USA 6. Wanted Native Views: Collecting Colonial Postcards of India Saloni Mathur, University of Michigan, USA Part III Domestic Contingencies and the Gendered Nation 7. Racialising Imperial Canada: Indian Women and the Making of Ethnic Communities Enakshi Dua, Queens University, Canada 8. 'Unnecessary Crimes and Tragedies': Race, Gender and Sexuality in Australian Policies of Aboriginal Child Removal Fiona Paisley, Australia National University 9. Gendering the Modern: Women and Home Science in British India Mary Hancock, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 10. Gender and 'Hyper-Masculinity' as Postcolonial Modernity during Indonesia's Struggle for Independence, 1945 - 1949 Frances Gouda, School of International Service, USA Part IV: Colonial Modernities and Syncretic Traditions: Negotiating New Identities 11. 'Respectability', 'Modernity' and the Policing of 'Culture' in Colonial Ceylon Malathi de Alwis, Social Scientists' Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka 12. Ancient Wisdom, Modern Motherhood: Theosophy and the Colonial Syncretic Joy Dixon, University of British Columbia, Canada 13. The Lineage of the 'Indian' Modern: Rhetoric, Agency and the Sarda Act in Late Colonial India Mrinalini Sinha, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA