Gender Sexuality and Colonial Modernities

<p><em>Gender Sexuality and Colonial Modernities</em> considers the ways in which modernity was constructed in all its incompleteness through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and equally diverse methodologies the authors trace modernity's unstable foundations in the slippages and ruptures of colonial gender and sexual politics. As a whole the essays illustrate that modern colonial regimes are never self-evidently hegemonic but are always in process - subject to disruption and contest - and never finally accomplished; and are therefore unfinished business.</p>