Empire and sexuality

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Manchester University Press, 1 mar. 2017 - 256 pagini
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as it did on the subordinate societies, the "Studies in Imperialism" series seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of education and religion, sports history and children's literature. The cultural emphasis embraces studies of migration and race, while the older political, and constitutional, economic and military concerns are never far away. It incorporates comparative work on European and American empire-building, with the chronological focus primarily, though not exclusively, on the 19th and 20th centuries, when these cultural exchanges were most powerfully at work. This work explores the sexual attitudes and activities of those who ran the British Empire. The study explains the pervasive importance of sexuality in the Victorian Empire, both for individuals and as a general dynamic in the working of the system. Among the topics included in the book are prostitution, the manners and mores of missionaries and aspects of race in sexual behaviour.

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problems and approaches
1
Sexual imperatives
25
The British home base
56
Empire and sexual opportunity
88
The sexual life of the Raj
115
Prostitution and Purity
137
Chastity and the Colonial Service
157
Missionary confrontations
182
race sex and empire
200
Bibliography
218
Glossary
226
Index
228
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