Gender, Sexuality, and Colonial Modeities Routledge

Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modeities (Routledge Research in Gender and History)

ISBN-10: 0415200687

ISBN-13: 9780415200684

Publication date: November 2, 1999

Hardcover: 248 pages
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Book Description
Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modeities considers the ways in which modeity was constructed, in all its incompleteness, through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and equally diverse methodologies, the authors trace modeity's unstable foundations in the slippages and ruptures of colonial gender and sexual politics. As a whole, the essays illustrate that mode colonial regimes are never self-evidently hegemonic, but are always in process - subject to disruption and contest - and never finally accomplished; and are therefore