Depraved and Disorderly

Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia

By:

Joy Damousi

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This innovative book tells the powerful stories of convict women, while drawing out broader themes of gender and sexual disorder and race and class dynamics. It looks at the cultural meanings of aspects of life in the colony: on ships, in the factories and in orphanages. Damousi considers such topics as headshaving as punishment in the prisons, as well as analyzing the language of pollution, purity and abandonment. The book shows how understanding about sexual and racial difference became a focus for cultural anxiety in colonial society.

Release date Australia

May 28th, 1997

Author

Joy Damousi

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

232

Dimensions

152x229x13

ISBN-13

9780521587235

Product ID

1978733

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