ABSTRACT
Confronting the contemporary poststructuralist debate from the perspective of cultural of cultural historiography, this book presents an historical study of race and ethnicity. Specifically, it provides an account, both theoretical and applied, of the combination of sexual, racial and ethnic underpinning and shaping the experiences of English men and women in various colonies in the nineteenth century. Although accessible for the student, the book will be received seriously by both theorists and historians.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 6|15 pages
The Mysteries and Secrets of Women's Bodies
Sexual knowledge in the first half of the twentieth century
chapter 9|30 pages
What a Day for a Daydream
Modernity, cinema and the popular imagination in the late twentieth century