Sex, Politics and Empire

A Postcolonial Geography

Richard Phillips (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2006
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-7006-8 (ISBN)

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Thie 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. -- .

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. -- .

Richard Phillips is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Liverpool -- .

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 -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2006
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Imperialism
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, black & white
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	535 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7190-7006-6 / 0719070066
ISBN-13	978-0-7190-7006-8 / 9780719070068
Zustand	Neuware