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Author: Siu Keung Cheung
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-12-14
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1135861714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGender and Community Under British Colonialism is a study of continuity and change in village communities in the New Territories of Hong Kong, China.
Author: Jessica Hinchy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-04
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 110849255X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.
Author: Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789053564035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWoman and the Colonial State deals with the ambiguous relationship between women of both the European and the Indonesian population and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on new data from a variety of sources: colonial archives, journals, household manuals, children's literature, and press surveys, it analyses the women-state relationship by presenting five empirical studies on subjects, in which women figured prominently at the time: Indonesian labour, Indonesian servants in colonial homes, Dutch colonial fashion and food, the feminist struggle for the vote and the intense debate about monogamy of and by women at the end of the 1930s. An introductory essay combines the outcomes of the case studies and relates those to debates about Orientalism, the construction of whiteness, and to questions of modernity and the colonial state formation.
Author: Amrit Wilson
Publisher:
Published: 2018-10
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781988832012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for that year, Finding a Voice established a new discourse on South Asian women's lives and struggles in Britain. This new edition includes a preface by Meena Kandasamy, some historic photographs, and a remarkable new chapter by young South Asian women.
Author: Enze Han
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-03
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 1351256181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish Colonialism and the Criminalization of Homosexuality examines whether colonial rule is responsible for the historical, and continuing, criminalization of same-sex sexual relations in many parts of the world. Enze Han and Joseph O’Mahoney gather and assess historical evidence to demonstrate the different ways in which the British empire spread laws criminalizing homosexual conduct amongst its colonies. Evidence includes case studies of former British colonies and the common law and criminal codes like the Indian Penal Code of 1860 and the Queensland Criminal Code of 1899. Surveying a wide range of countries, the authors scrutinise whether ex-British colonies are more likely to have laws that criminalize homosexual conduct than other ex-colonies or other states in general They interrogate the claim that British imperialism uniquely ‘poisoned’ societies against homosexuality, and look at the legacies of colonialism and the politics and legal status of homosexuality across the globe.
Author: Anne Mcclintock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1135209103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.
Author: Kathryn Gleadle
Publisher: OUP/British Academy
Published: 2009-09-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780197264492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the most comprehensive analysis to date of women's involvement in British political culture in the first half of the 19th century. Innovative in its attention to both urban and rural experiences of politics, the volume also challenges many assumptions about contemporary politics, including fresh insights into the Reform Act of 1832.
Author: Jean Allman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002-04-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780253108876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did African women negotiate the complex political, economic, and social forces of colonialism in their daily lives? How did they make meaningful lives for themselves in a world that challenged fundamental notions of work, sexuality, marriage, motherhood, and family? By considering the lives of ordinary African women -- farmers, queen mothers, midwives, urban dwellers, migrants, and political leaders -- in the context of particular colonial conditions at specific places and times, Women in African Colonial Histories challenges the notion of a homogeneous "African women's experience." While recognizing the inherent violence and brutality of the colonial encounter, the essays in this lively volume show that African women were not simply the hapless victims of European political rule. Innovative use of primary sources, including life histories, oral narratives, court cases, newspapers, colonial archives, and physical evidence, attests that African women's experiences defy static representation. Readers at all levels will find this an important contribution to ongoing debates in African women's history and African colonial history.
Author: Nancy L. Paxton
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780813526010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the rhetoric of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Paxton shows how it reflects basic concepts in the social and sexual contracts defining the women's relationship to the nation state.
Author: Isabella Ng
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-30
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1351019848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores gender dynamics in the indigenous villages (also known as walled villages) in post-handover Hong Kong. It looks at how Hong Kong’s reunification with China has impacted the walled villagers, in particular the women, and how the walled villages’ current gender dynamics in return reflects the changes that have happened in Hong Kong after the reunification with China. It traces the historical development of the walled villages, outlines the nature of walled-village society, and explores the changes currently at work including the erosion of the rural/urban divide, the increasing participation of indigenous women in Hong Kong society more widely and the breakdown of traditional social norms, especially patriarchy.
