Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemenâ 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. -- .
Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemenâ 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. -- .
Kirsty Reid is Senior Lecturer in History and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Colonial & Postcolonial Societies at the University of Bristol
Inhaltsangabe
General editor's introduction Introduction 1. Visions of order: gender, sexual morality and the state in early Van Diemen's Land 2. Regulating society, purifying the state: gender, respectability and colonial authority 3. Production and reproduction: colonial order, convict labour and the convict private sphere, c. 1803-17 4. Sex and slavery: convict servitude and the reworking of the private sphere, c. 1817-42 5. 'A nation of Cyprians and Turks': convict transportation, Colonial Reform and the imperial body politic 6. Sodomy and self-government: convict transportation and colonial independence Conclusion Select bibliography Index
General editor's introduction Introduction 1. Visions of order: gender, sexual morality and the state in early Van Diemen's Land 2. Regulating society, purifying the state: gender, respectability and colonial authority 3. Production and reproduction: colonial order, convict labour and the convict private sphere, c. 1803-17 4. Sex and slavery: convict servitude and the reworking of the private sphere, c. 1817-42 5. 'A nation of Cyprians and Turks': convict transportation, Colonial Reform and the imperial body politic 6. Sodomy and self-government: convict transportation and colonial independence Conclusion Select bibliography Index
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