Fae Dussart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fae Dussart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fae |
| FAMILY NAME | Dussart |
| SIGNATURE | DUSSART F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘That unit of civilisation’ and ‘the talent peculiar to women’: British employers and their servants in the nineteenth-century Indian empire
Domestic servants across the British Empire were instrumental in constructing colonial domesticity. In metropole and colony, they marked the physical boundaries of the house and family and the categorical boundaries of class, gender and racial difference. However, in colonial India, the gender and racial status of Indian servants, relative to both their colonial employers and their metropolitan counterparts, disrupted the dynamics of dependence t…
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and empire. The story of 'humane' colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, amelioration, conciliation, protection and develop…
To Glut a Menial's Grudge: Domestic servants and the Ilbert Bill controversy of 1883
This article focusses on a particular political controversy in India surrounding the Ilbert Bill of 1883, in which domestic servants had an unwitting and significant role. The response to the Bill in the Anglo-Indian community was vehemently hostile. By considering how the potential threat posed by Indian domestic servants to their English mistresses became a rhetorical stick for servant employers to beat the Government with, this article demonst…
Master and Servant: Love and labour in the English industrial age; Mrs Woolf and the Servants: the hidden heart of domestic service
CAROLYN STEEDMAN Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 Pp. xii + 263. £17.99. ISBN 978 0 521 69773 6 ALISON LIGHT London: Fig Tree, Penguin, 2007 Pp. xxiiii + 376. £20.00. ISBN 978 0 670 8671
Masculinity, ‘race’, and family in the colonies: Protecting Aborigines in the early nineteenth century
Much of British imperial society in the early nineteenth century was characterised by a reformulated sensibility of manliness and family. Integral to this sensibility was the notion of men's responsibility for dependants. However, the story of Charles Wightman Sievwright, appointed as Assistant Protector of Aborigines in colonial New South Wales, serves to demonstrate that a man's duty of care for very different, racialised kinds of dependants co…
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and empire. The story of 'humane' colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, amelioration, conciliation, protection and develop…
Masculinity, ‘race’, and family in the colonies: Protecting Aborigines in the early nineteenth century
Much of British imperial society in the early nineteenth century was characterised by a reformulated sensibility of manliness and family. Integral to this sensibility was the notion of men's responsibility for dependants. However, the story of Charles Wightman Sievwright, appointed as Assistant Protector of Aborigines in colonial New South Wales, serves to demonstrate that a man's duty of care for very different, racialised kinds of dependants co…
To Glut a Menial's Grudge: Domestic servants and the Ilbert Bill controversy of 1883
This article focusses on a particular political controversy in India surrounding the Ilbert Bill of 1883, in which domestic servants had an unwitting and significant role. The response to the Bill in the Anglo-Indian community was vehemently hostile. By considering how the potential threat posed by Indian domestic servants to their English mistresses became a rhetorical stick for servant employers to beat the Government with, this article demonst…
Masculinity, ‘race’, and family in the colonies: Protecting Aborigines in the early nineteenth century
Much of British imperial society in the early nineteenth century was characterised by a reformulated sensibility of manliness and family. Integral to this sensibility was the notion of men's responsibility for dependants. However, the story of Charles Wightman Sievwright, appointed as Assistant Protector of Aborigines in colonial New South Wales, serves to demonstrate that a man's duty of care for very different, racialised kinds of dependants co…
Master and Servant: Love and labour in the English industrial age; Mrs Woolf and the Servants: the hidden heart of domestic service
CAROLYN STEEDMAN Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 Pp. xii + 263. £17.99. ISBN 978 0 521 69773 6 ALISON LIGHT London: Fig Tree, Penguin, 2007 Pp. xxiiii + 376. £20.00. ISBN 978 0 670 8671
To Glut a Menial's Grudge: Domestic servants and the Ilbert Bill controversy of 1883
This article focusses on a particular political controversy in India surrounding the Ilbert Bill of 1883, in which domestic servants had an unwitting and significant role. The response to the Bill in the Anglo-Indian community was vehemently hostile. By considering how the potential threat posed by Indian domestic servants to their English mistresses became a rhetorical stick for servant employers to beat the Government with, this article demonst…
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and empire. The story of 'humane' colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, amelioration, conciliation, protection and develop…
‘That unit of civilisation’ and ‘the talent peculiar to women’: British employers and their servants in the nineteenth-century Indian empire
Domestic servants across the British Empire were instrumental in constructing colonial domesticity. In metropole and colony, they marked the physical boundaries of the house and family and the categorical boundaries of class, gender and racial difference. However, in colonial India, the gender and racial status of Indian servants, relative to both their colonial employers and their metropolitan counterparts, disrupted the dynamics of dependence t…
Sociology (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Servant (3 works) · Australian History and Society (2 works) · British Empire (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)