Gender, crime and empire

Gender, crime and empire
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9781526118592
ISBN-13 : 1526118599
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Book Synopsis Gender, crime and empire by : Kirsty Reid

Download or read book Gender, crime and empire written by Kirsty Reid and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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