Gender and colonial space /
"Gender and colonial space is a trenchant analysis of the complex relation between social relations, including notions of class, nationality and gender, and spatial relations, landscape, architecture and topography -- in post-colonial contexts." "Arguing against much of the psychoanal...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester ; New York :
Manchester University Press,
[2005]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | "Gender and colonial space is a trenchant analysis of the complex relation between social relations, including notions of class, nationality and gender, and spatial relations, landscape, architecture and topography -- in post-colonial contexts." "Arguing against much of the psychoanalytic focus of much current post-colonial theory Mills aims to set out in a new direction, drawing on a wide range of literary and non-literary texts to develop a more materialist approach. She foregrounds gender in this field where it has often been marginalised by the critical orthodoxies demonstrating its importance not only in spatial theorising in general, but in the post-colonial theorising of space in particular." "Concentrating on the period of high British colonialism at the close of the nineteenth century, she examines a range of contexts, looking at a range of colonial contexts such as India, Africa, America, Canada, Australia and Britain, illustrating how relations must be analysed for the way in which different colonial contexts define and constitute each other."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (199 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781781702284 1781702284 9781847793812 1847793819 |