Gender, Crime and Empire Reid Kirsty
Gender, Crime and Empire Reid Kirsty Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. The book explores the ways in which ideas about fatherhood and household order…
Specifikacia Gender, Crime and Empire Reid Kirsty
Gender, Crime and Empire Reid Kirsty
Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. The book explores the ways in which ideas about fatherhood and household order initially informed the state's model of order, and the reasons why this foundered. 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.
It goes on to explore the ways in which It considers the shifting nature of state policies towards courtship, relationships and attempts at family formation which subsequently became matters of class conflict.
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