Gender and Community Under British Colonialism

Gender and Community Under British Colonialism

Author: Siu Keung Cheung

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-12-14

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1135861714

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Gender and Community Under British Colonialism is a study of continuity and change in village communities in the New Territories of Hong Kong, China.


Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

Author: Jessica Hinchy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-04

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 110849255X

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Examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.


British Colonialism and the Criminalization of Homosexuality

British Colonialism and the Criminalization of Homosexuality

Author: Enze Han

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-03

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1351256181

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British 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.


Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860

Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860

Author: Anna Johnston

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-08-07

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0521826993

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Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between imperial and religious interests. She maps out this position through an examination of texts published by missionaries of the largest, most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society. Texts from Indian, Polynesian, and Australian missions are examined to highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical activity in relation to gender, colonialism, and race.


Women and the Colonial State

Women and the Colonial State

Author: Elsbeth Locher-Scholten

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9789053564035

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Woman 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.


Imperial Leather

Imperial Leather

Author: Anne Mcclintock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1135209103

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Imperial 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.


Women in African Colonial Histories

Women in African Colonial Histories

Author: Jean Allman

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2002-04-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780253108876

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How 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.


Hong Kong Rural Women under Chinese Rule

Hong Kong Rural Women under Chinese Rule

Author: Isabella Ng

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-30

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1351019848

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This 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.


What is Gender History?

What is Gender History?

Author: Sonya O. Rose

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-04-22

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 0745659098

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This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to both classic texts in the field and the latest literature, the author examines the origins and development of the field and elucidates current debates and controversies. She highlights the significance of race, class and ethnicity for how gender affects society, culture and politics as well as delving into histories of masculinity. The author discusses in a clear and straightforward manner the various methods and approaches used by gender historians. Consideration is given to how the study of gender illuminates the histories of revolution, war and nationalism, industrialization and labor relations, politics and citizenship, colonialism and imperialism using as examples research dealing with the histories of a number of areas across the globe. Written by one of the leading scholars in this vibrant field, What is Gender History? will be the ideal introduction for students of all levels.