Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138546387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str.

Victoria K. Haskins; Claire Lowrie

Opis

This book brings together two key themes that have not been addressed together previously in any sustained way: domestic service and colonization. Existing studies of domestic service rarely make mention of colonization, but colonization offers a rich and exciting new paradigm for analysing the phenomenon of domestic labour by non-family workers, paid and otherwise. Scholars in diverse fields and disciplines here share new and stimulating insights on the various connections between domestic employment and the processes of colonization, both past and present, in a range of original essays.

Spis treści

Introduction: Decolonizing Domestic Service: Introducing a New Agenda  Victoria K. Haskins and Claire Lowrie  1. An Historical Perspective: Colonial Continuities in the Global Geography of Domestic Service  B. W. Higman  Part I: Anxieties and Intimacies  Victoria K. Haskins and Claire Lowrie  2. Domesti-city: Colonial Anxieties and Postcolonial Fantasies in the Figure of the Maid  Shireen Ally  3. Settling In, From Within: Anglo-Indian ‘Lady Helps’ in 1920s New Zealand  Jane McCabe  4. ‘Ah Look Afta De Child Like Is Mine’: Discourses of Mothering in Jamaican Domestic Service, 1920-1970  Michele A. Johnson  5. ‘Always a Good Demand’: Aboriginal Child Domestic Servants in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Australia  Shirleene Robinson  6. Maids’ Talk: Linguistic Containment and Mobility for Sri Lankan Housemaids in Lebanon  Fida Bizri  7. Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore: Historical and Contemporary Reflections on the Colonial Politics of Intimacy  Maria Platt  Part II: Domination and Resistance  Victoria K. Haskins and Claire Lowrie  8. ‘Strictly Legal Means’: Assault, Abuse and the Limits of Acceptable Behaviour in the Servant/Employer Relationship in Metropole and Colony 1850-1890  Fae Dussart  9. Imperial Legacies and Neoliberal Realities: Domestic Worker Organizing in Postcolonial New York City  Alana Lee Glaser  10. Tactics of Survival: Images of Aboriginal Women and Domestic Service  Michael Aird  11. ‘I Would Like the Girls at Home’: Domestic Labor and the Age of Discharge at Canadian Indian Residential Schools  Mary Jane Logan McCallum  12. White Women and Chinese ‘Houseboys’: Domestic Politics in Singapore and Darwin from the 1910s to the 1930s  Claire Lowrie  Part III: Legacies and Dreams  Victoria K. Haskins and Claire Lowrie  13. Baby Halder’s A Life Less Ordinary: A Transition from India’s Colonial Past?  Swapna M. Banerjee  14. From Our Own Backyard?: Understanding UK Au Pair Policy as Colonial Legacy and Neo-Colonial Dream  Rosie Cox  15. Taking Colonialism Home: Cook Island ‘Housegirls’ in New Zealand, 1939-1948  Charlotte Macdonald  16. British Caribbean Women Migrants and Domestic Service in Latin America, 1850-1950: Race, Gender and Colonial Legacies  Nicola Foote  17. Contemporary Balinese Cruise Ship Workers, Passengers and Employers: Colonial Patterns of Domestic Service  Pamela Nilan, Luh Putu Artini and Steven Threadgold  18. A Contemporary Perspective: ‘Picking the Fruit from the Tree’: From Colonial Legacy to Global Protections in Transnational Domestic Worker Activism  Jennifer N. Fish  Conclusion: Agency, Representation, and Subalternity: Some Concluding Thoughts Victoria K. Haskins and Claire Lowrie

O autorze

Victoria K. Haskins is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Claire Lowrie is a Lecturer in History at the University of Wollongong, Australia.