ABSTRACT
Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities considers the ways in which modernity was constructed, in all its incompleteness, through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and equally diverse methodologies, the authors trace modernity's unstable foundations in the slippages and ruptures of colonial gender and sexual politics. As a whole, the essays illustrate that modern colonial regimes are never self-evidently hegemonic, but are always in process - subject to disruption and contest - and never finally accomplished; and are therefore unfinished business.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part I COLONIAL MODERNITY, SEXUALITY AND SPACE
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Part II SPECTACLES OF RACIALISED MODERNITY
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Part III DOMESTIC CONTINGENCIES AND THE GENDERED NATION
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Part IV COLONIAL MODERNITIES AND SYNCRETIC TRADITIONS