Author | : Antoinette Burton |
File Size | : 46,6 Mb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 05 August 2005 |
ISBN | : 9781134636488 |
Pages | : 253 pages |
Gender Sexuality and Colonial Modernities by Antoinette Burton Book PDF Summary
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.