| Description |
xiv, 236 p. : ill., ports. |
| Series |
Routledge research in gender and history ; 2 |
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Routledge research in gender and history ; 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cleansing motherhood : hygiene and the culture of domesticity in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1875-1900 / Nayan Shah -- Modernity, medicine and colonialism : the contagious diseases ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements / Philippa Levine -- White colonialism and sexual modernity : Australian women in the early twentieth century metropolis / Angela Woollacott -- Local colour : the spectacle of race at Niagara Falls / Karen Dubinsky -- Unsettling settlers : colonial migrants and racialised sexuality in interwar Marseilles / Yael Simpson Fletcher -- Wanted native views : collecting colonial postcards of India / Saloni Mathur -- Racialising imperial Canada : Indian women and the making of ethnic communities / Enakshi Dua -- "Unnecessary crimes and tragedies" : race, gender and sexuality in Australian policies of Aboriginal child removal / Fiona Paisley -- Gendering the modern : women and home science in British India / Mary Hancock -- Gender and "hyper-masculinity" as post-colonial modernity during Indonesia's struggle for independence, 1945 to 1949 / Frances Gouda -- "Respectability," "modernity" and the policing of "culture" in colonial Ceylon / Malathi De Alwis -- Ancient wisdom, modern motherhood : theosophy and the colonial syncretic / Joy Dixon -- The lineage of the "Indian" modern : rhetoric, agency and the Sarda Act in late colonial India / Mrinalini Sinha. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Women -- History.
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Imperialism -- History.
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0203984498 |
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0415200687 |
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