Kirsty Reid

Gender, crime and empire

Convicts, settlers and the state in early colonial Australia

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemenà â â 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. -- .

Produktdetails

• Studies in Imperialism
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780719066993
• ISBN-10: 0719066999
• Artikelnr.: 36906032

Autorenporträt

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