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Gender, Crime and Empire: Studies in Imperialism

Autor Kirsty Reid
en Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2012
Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. Revising established models of the colonies, which tend to depict convict women as a peculiarly oppressed group, Gender, crime and empire argues that convict men and women in fact shared much in common. Placing men and women, ideas about masculinity, femininity, sexuality and the body, in comparative perspective, this book argues that historians must take fuller account of class to understand the relationships between gender and power. The book explores the ways in which ideas about fatherhood and household order initially informed the state's model of order, and the reasons why this foundered. It considers the shifting nature of state policies towards courtship, relationships and attempts at family formation which subsequently became matters of class conflict. It goes on to explore the ways in which ideas about gender and family informed liberal and humanitarian critiques of the colonies from the 1830s and 1840s and colonial demands for abolition and self-government.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780719066993
ISBN-10: 0719066999
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 1 maps, Illustrations, black & white|Maps
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seria Studies in Imperialism


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Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land between 1803 and 1852, challenging the received notions of convict women as a particularly oppressed and exploited group, supposedly dominated by convict men as much as by the imperial and colonial states.