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Depraved and Disorderly

Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia

Joy Damousi

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ISBN: 9780521587235

Format: Paperback / softback, 232 pages , 229mm x 152mm x 13mm

Published: 28-May-1997

Imprint: Cambridge University Press

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Country of Publication: United Kingdom

Description - Depraved and Disorderly by Joy Damousi

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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