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Gender, sexuality, and colonial modernities

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Publication details: London Routledge 2011Description: 232p xiiiISBN:
  • 9780415513685
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.300000 BUR
Contents:
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
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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