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Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia Paperback - 1997

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.

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  • Title Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia
  • Author Joy Damousi
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition.
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
  • Date 1997-05-28
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780521587235 / 0521587239
  • Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.92 x 5.94 x 0.6 in (22.66 x 15.09 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Australian
    • Cultural Region: Oceania
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women prisoners - Australia - History - 19th, Criminals - Rehabilitation - Australia -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96046423
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.374
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