Gender, Sexuality, and Colonial Modernities Routledge

Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities (Routledge Research in Gender and History)

ISBN-10: 0415200687
ISBN-13: 9780415200684
Release: November 2, 1999
Hardcover: 248 pages
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Book Description
Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities considers the ways in which modernity was constructed, in all its incompleteness, through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and equally diverse methodologies, the authors trace modernity’s unstable foundations in the slippages and ruptures of colonial gender and sexual politics. As a whole, the essays illustrate that modern colonial regimes are never self-evidently hegemonic, but are always in process – subject to disruption and contest – and never finally accomplished; and are therefore