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Sex, Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography

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Sex, Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography - Phillips, Richard
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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 ...

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Sex, Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography 2006, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9780719070068

Hardcover