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Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia
Kirsty Reid
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Studies in Imperialism
Condition
New
Weight
464g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719066993
SKU
V9780719066993
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About Kirsty Reid
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 -- .
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