Sex, politics and empire
Richard Phillips
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
contagious diseases laws, Richard Francis Burton, moral universalism, sexual currency, sex between men, late Victorian age., British model of imperialism, South Australian parliament, Criminal Law Amendment Act, homosexuality, Indian Spectator, sexuality politics, purity campaigns, sexual margins, age of consent, prostitution, sexual conduct