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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.

Table of Contents

General editor’s introduction
Introduction
1. Visions of order: gender, sexual morality and the state in early Van Diemen’s Land
2. Regulating society, purifying the state: gender, respectability and colonial authority
3. Production and reproduction: colonial order, convict labour and the convict private sphere, c. 1803–17
4. Sex and slavery: convict servitude and the reworking of the private sphere, c. 1817–42
5. ‘A nation of Cyprians and Turks’: convict transportation, Colonial Reform and the imperial body politic
6. Sodomy and self-government: convict transportation and colonial independence
Conclusion
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Index

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 11 January 2012
      ISBN-13 9780719066993
      978-0719066993
      ISBN-10 0719066999
      Also in:
      History Australasian and Pacific history Colonialism and imperialism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      General editor’s introduction
      Introduction
      1. Visions of order: gender, sexual morality and the state in early Van Diemen’s Land
      2. Regulating society, purifying the state: gender, respectability and colonial authority
      3. Production and reproduction: colonial order, convict labour and the convict private sphere, c. 1803–17
      4. Sex and slavery: convict servitude and the reworking of the private sphere, c. 1817–42
      5. ‘A nation of Cyprians and Turks’: convict transportation, Colonial Reform and the imperial body politic
      6. Sodomy and self-government: convict transportation and colonial independence
      Conclusion
      Select bibliography
      Index

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