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Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
