Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities

ISBN-13: 9780415200684 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 248 str.

A. Burton; Antoinette M. Burton

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This volume 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; they are therefore unfinished business. The book is divided into four sections: mapping new terrains; representation and cultural production; domestic contingencies; and negotiating new identities. The essays cover a wide geographical range: from India to Indonesia: Canada to Calcutta; Paris to London; Australia to the Straits settlement, China to Niagara Falls. Equally broadly, they deal with travel writing, women's political and social reform activities, urban ethnography, immigration, the regulation of prostitution, military discourse, the picture postcard and theosophy.

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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

O autorze

Antoinette Burton