Add to ORKGThis article sets out to retrieve two accounts of female deviance in colonial Fiji. It will posit rule-breaking behavior as a reaction to colonial and patriarchal efforts to regulate female behavior and sexuality. The article simultaneously aims to undo rigid categorizations of female deviance by relating such acts to historical circumstance. Police records, court proceedings and news items from The National Archives of Fiji are cited to show how indigenous Fijian woman, Davilo, and indentured Indian woman, Sukhrania, transgressed socially constructed paradigms of morality by procuring abortions in 1884 and engaging in prostitution in 1909, respectively. By relabeling these alleged acts of deviance as survival strategies emerging out...
Antifemale bias permeating across the world has perhaps percolated in the perpetuation of the awful ...
For most historians European women have been irrelevant to significant themes in the history of Fij...
Little is known about capital punishment in Fiji in the context of indenture. This paper examines ca...
This article sets out to retrieve two accounts of female deviance in colonial Fiji. It will posit ru...
This article sets out to retrieve two accounts of female deviance in colonial Fiji. It will posit ru...
This article sets out to undo colonial constructions of the ‘madwoman’ in Fiji during the indenture...
This article sets out to undo colonial constructions of the ‘madwoman’ in Fiji during the indenture ...
In a series of columns published in Australian newspapers in the 1920s, Australian journalist Thomas...
This article sets out to undo colonial constructions of the ‘madwoman’ in Fiji during the indenture ...
In a series of columns published in Australian newspapers in the 1920s, Australian journalist Thomas...
Fijian women collectively challenged their double colonization since the 1900s. Indentured women wor...
Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women’s organisations have navigated a complex political t...
The seismic shifts in Indian society which took place over the course of the 19th century have been ...
This dissertation examines the troubled history of law and prostitution in colonial India from the l...
Both the garment industry and the sex trade are highly globalised and feminised phenomena, no longer...
Antifemale bias permeating across the world has perhaps percolated in the perpetuation of the awful ...
For most historians European women have been irrelevant to significant themes in the history of Fij...
Little is known about capital punishment in Fiji in the context of indenture. This paper examines ca...
This article sets out to retrieve two accounts of female deviance in colonial Fiji. It will posit ru...
This article sets out to retrieve two accounts of female deviance in colonial Fiji. It will posit ru...
This article sets out to undo colonial constructions of the ‘madwoman’ in Fiji during the indenture...
This article sets out to undo colonial constructions of the ‘madwoman’ in Fiji during the indenture ...
In a series of columns published in Australian newspapers in the 1920s, Australian journalist Thomas...
This article sets out to undo colonial constructions of the ‘madwoman’ in Fiji during the indenture ...
In a series of columns published in Australian newspapers in the 1920s, Australian journalist Thomas...
Fijian women collectively challenged their double colonization since the 1900s. Indentured women wor...
Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women’s organisations have navigated a complex political t...
The seismic shifts in Indian society which took place over the course of the 19th century have been ...
This dissertation examines the troubled history of law and prostitution in colonial India from the l...
Both the garment industry and the sex trade are highly globalised and feminised phenomena, no longer...
Antifemale bias permeating across the world has perhaps percolated in the perpetuation of the awful ...
For most historians European women have been irrelevant to significant themes in the history of Fij...
Little is known about capital punishment in Fiji in the context of indenture. This paper examines ca...