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Sex, Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography
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Sex, Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography Hardcover - 2006

by Richard Phillips

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Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and bureaucracies. For this reason they devised elaborate systems of sexual governance, such as attending to marriage and the family. However, they also devoted disproportionate energy to marking and policing the sexual margins.

In Sex, Politics and Empire, Richard Phillips investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and revolutionises our notions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations.

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Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and bureaucracies. For this reason they devised elaborate systems of sexual governance, such as attending to marriage and the family. However, they also devoted disproportionate energy to marking and policing the sexual margins.

In Sex, Politics and Empire, Richard Phillips investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and revolutionises our notions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations.

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  • Title Sex, Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography
  • Author Richard Phillips
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Manchester University Press
  • Date 2006-02-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780719070068 / 0719070066
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 7.32 x 1.03 in (24.38 x 18.59 x 2.62 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Sexual ethics - Great Britain - History, Sex - Political aspects - Great Britain -
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.709

About the author

Richard Phillips is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Liverpool

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