Catharine Coleborne

Insanity, identity and empire (eBook, ePUB)

Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having engaged with the structural imperatives of empire and with the varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine, historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants, military bodies and medical personnel, and 'transnational lives'. This book examines an empire-wide discourse of 'madness' as part of this inquiry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784996093
• Artikelnr.: 44042863

Autorenporträt

Catharine Coleborne is Professor of History in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, New Zealand

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Insanity
identity and empire 1. Insanity in the 'age of mobility': Melbourne and Auckland
1850s-80s 2. Immigrants
mental health and social institutions: Melbourne and Auckland
1850s-90s 3. Passing through: narrating patient identities in the colonial hospitals for the insane
1873-1910 4. White men and weak masculinity: men in the public asylums
1860s-1900s 5. Insanity and white femininity: women in the public asylums
1860s-1900s 6. The 'Others': inscribing difference in colonial institutional settings Conclusion Bibliography Index