Claire Lowrie is Lecturer in History at the University of Wollongong, Australia
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Domestic service and colonial mastery in the tropics 1. A 'second Singapore'? The connected histories of Darwin and Singapore, 1860s-1930s 2. Historicising 'houseboys': cultures of male servitude in the tropics, 1880s-1910s 3. White masters and their Chinese 'houseboys': masculinity, sexuality and racial anxiety in the home, 1880s-1930s 4. White women and the case of the disappearing Chinese 'houseboys', 1910s-30s 5. Idle mems, weary wives and 'red hot revolutionaries': domestic tension and political antagonism in the home, 1910s-30s 6. Masters and colonisers: the politics of Chinese domestic mastery, 1920s-30s Conclusion: Domestic service at the end of empire Select bibliography of secondary sources Index
Introduction: Domestic service and colonial mastery in the tropics 1. A 'second Singapore'? The connected histories of Darwin and Singapore, 1860s-1930s 2. Historicising 'houseboys': cultures of male servitude in the tropics, 1880s-1910s 3. White masters and their Chinese 'houseboys': masculinity, sexuality and racial anxiety in the home, 1880s-1930s 4. White women and the case of the disappearing Chinese 'houseboys', 1910s-30s 5. Idle mems, weary wives and 'red hot revolutionaries': domestic tension and political antagonism in the home, 1910s-30s 6. Masters and colonisers: the politics of Chinese domestic mastery, 1920s-30s Conclusion: Domestic service at the end of empire Select bibliography of secondary sources Index
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