Title Depraved and disorderly : female convicts, sexuality and gender in Colonial Australia / Joy Damousi

Published Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Description x, 221 pages ; 24 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Part I. Sexuality, Resistance and Punishment: 1. Chaos and order: gender, space and sexuality on female convict ships -- 2. Depraved and disorderly: the sexuality of convict women -- 3. Disrupting the boundaries: resistance and convict women -- 4. Defeminising convict women: headshaving as punishment in the female factories -- Part II. Familt Life and Convictism: 5. Convict mothering -- 6. Wretchedness and vice: the 'orphan' and the colonial imagination -- 7. Abandonment, flight and absence: motherhood and fatherhood during the 1820s and 1830s -- Conclusion Summary This innovative book marks a new way of looking at convict women. It tells their stories in a powerful and evocative way, drawing out broader themes of gender and sexual disorder and race and class dynamics in a colonial context. It considers the convict past in light of contemporary concerns, looking at the cultural meanings of aspects of life in the colony: on ships, in the factories and in orphanages. Using startlingly original research, Joy Damousi considers such varied topics as headshaving as punishment in the prisons and the subversive nature of laughter and play, as well as analysing the language of pollution, purity and abandonment. She also dicusses the nature of sexual relationships, including evidence of lesbianism. The book shows how understanding about sexual and racial difference was crucial for both the maintenance and disturbance of colonial society, and became a focus for cultural anxiety Analysis Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- Australia -- History -- 19th century Women prisoners -- Australia -- History -- 19th century Women prisoners -- Sexual behavior -- Australia Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index Notes English Subject Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- Australia -- History -- 19th century. Prisoners -- Transportation -- Australia -- History. Women prisoners -- Australia -- History -- 19th century. Penal colonies -- Australia -- History. Women prisoners -- Australia -- History. Sex role -- Australia -- History. Women prisoners -- Australia -- Social conditions -- History. Women prisoners -- Australia -- Social conditions. Women prisoners -- Sexual behavior -- Australia. Gender Identity -- history Prisoners -- history. Sexual Behavior. Women -- history. SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 1788-1851. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009592 Australia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 -- 1788-1851 Australia -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 LC no. 96046423 ISBN 0521583233 (hardback) 0521587239 (paperback)

ABBREV TI Depraved and Disorderly Other Titles Depraved & Disorderly

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