Not A White Women Safe: Sexual Anxicty And Politics In Port Moresby, 1920-1934 by Amirah Inglis

Sexual anxiety, bordering on panic, in the Australian colonial town of Port Moresby--'Port"-- during the 1920s is the theme of this book. Panic and political passion forced Administrator Hubert Murray, whose native policy was criticized as 'lenient,' to introduce the savagely discriminatory White Women's Protection Ordinance. It stated that anyone who raped or attempted to rape a white woman or girl would be hanged. Mrs. Inglis tells the stories of two Papuans convicted under the Ordinance and shows how guilt over the conduct of the trials and over the public hanging of one of the men clouded the judgment of the white residents so that they became incapable of telling the truth about the incidents, then or later.

Publisher:	Australian National University Press
Year:	1974
Binding:	Hardback
Condition:	Good
Description:	DJ; Owner's Name inside.

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SKU: 1589781
Location: Pacific