Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 254 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781526118455
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9781526118462
Series Statement:
Studies in imperialism
Content:
This books investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and draws conclusions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations. It will be of particular interest to academics and students in Geography, History, Postcolonial Criticism and Gender/Sexuality Studies
Content:
Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and bureaucracies. For this reason they devised elaborate systems of sexual governance, such as attending to marriage and the family. However, they also devoted disproportionate energy to marking and policing the sexual margins. In 'Sex, Politics and Empire', Richard Phillips investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and revolutionises our notions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations
Note:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Mapping the tyranny -- 1. Spreading political knowledge: English newspapers, correspondents, travellers -- 2. Provincialising European sexuality politics: the age of consent in India -- 3. Colonial departures: Australian activists on the age of consent and prostitution -- 4. Heterogeneous imperialism: deciding against regulation in West Africa -- 5. Generative margins: introducing a stronger form of regulation in Bombay -- 6. Drawing distinctions: Richard Burton’s interventions on sex between men -- 7. Experimental and creative places: Creole interventions in Sierra Leone -- Conclusion: Fields of understanding and political action -- References
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-7190-7006-8
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-7190-7007-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Großbritannien
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Kolonie
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Sexualethik
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Geschichte
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Großbritannien
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Kolonialismus
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Sexualpolitik
;
Geschichte
DOI:
10.7765/9781526118455
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