Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Aus

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Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land between 1803 and 1852, challenging the received notions of convict women as a particularly oppressed and exploited group, supposedly dominated by convict men as much as by the imperial and colonial states.

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Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. 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. 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. It considers the shifting nature of state policies towards courtship, relationships and attempts at family formation which subsequently became matters of class conflict. It goes on to explore the ways in which ideas about gender and family informed liberal and humanitarian critiques of the colonies from the 1830s and 1840s and colonial demands for abolition and self-government. -- .

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Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. 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. 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. It considers the shifting nature of state policies towards courtship, relationships and attempts at family formation which subsequently became matters of class conflict. It goes on to explore the ways in which ideas about gender and family informed liberal and humanitarian critiques of the colonies from the 1830s and 1840s and colonial demands for abolition and self-government.

Author Biography

Kirsty Reid is Senior Lecturer in History and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Colonial & Postcolonial Societies at the University of Bristol

Table of Contents

General editor's introductionIntroduction 1. Visions of order: gender, sexual morality and the state in early Van Diemen's Land2. Regulating society, purifying the state: gender, respectability and colonial authority3. Production and reproduction: colonial order, convict labour and the convict private sphere, c. 1803–174. Sex and slavery: convict servitude and the reworking of the private sphere, c. 1817–425. 'A nation of Cyprians and Turks': convict transportation, Colonial Reform and the imperial body politic6. Sodomy and self-government: convict transportation and colonial independenceConclusionSelect bibliographyIndex

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Examines the experiences of the convicts transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land from 1803-1852, challenging the notions of convict women as being oppressed and exploited, dominated by convict men and the imperial/colonial states

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Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. 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. 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. It considers the shifting nature of state policies towards courtship, relationships and attempts at family formation which subsequently became matters of class conflict. It goes on to explore the ways in which ideas about gender and family informed liberal and humanitarian critiques of the colonies from the 1830s and 1840s and colonial demands for abolition and self-government.

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Provides an essential and richly researched account of the colonization of Van Diemen's Land. Argues that historians need to recognize the importance of class to more fully understand the relationships between gender, empire and power.. Places convict men and women in comparative perspective. Unlike the previous studies in this field, it therefore pays as much attention to ideas about convict masculinities and to male sexualities as to the convict women. Provides a highly revisionary challenge to the existing studies on gender and colonialism in the convict colonies.

Details ISBN0719066999 Author Kirsty Reid Publisher Manchester University Press Series Studies in Imperialism Year 2012 ISBN-10 0719066999 ISBN-13 9780719066993 Format Paperback Publication Date 2012-11-01 Imprint Manchester University Press Subtitle Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 994.602 Language English Short Title GENDER CRIME & EMPIRE Media Book Pages 256 Illustrations 1 Maps Series Number 69 UK Release Date 2012-11-01 NZ Release Date 2012-11-01 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2012-10-31 We've got this

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