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Title: SEX, POLITICS AND EMPIRE
A POSTCOLONIAL GEOGRAPHY
By: Richard Phillips, Andrew Thompson, John MacKenzie
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0719070066
ISBN 13: 9780719070068
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Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 28 February, 2006
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Pages: 264
Description: Thie books investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and draws conclusions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations. It will be of particular interest to academics and students in Geography, History, Postcolonial Criticism and Gender/Sexuality Studies. -- .
Synopsis: Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and bureaucracies. For this reason they devised elaborate systems of sexual governance, such as attending to marriage and the family. However, they also devoted disproportionate energy to marking and policing the sexual margins. In Sex, Politics and Empire, Richard Phillips investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and revolutionises our notions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations. -- .
Illustrations: Illustrations, black & white
Publication: UK
Imprint: Manchester University Press
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