Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cleansing motherhood : hygiene and the culture of domesticity in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1875-1900 / Nayan Shah -- Modernity, medicine a nd colonialism : the contagious diseases ordinances in Hong Kong and th e Straits Settlements / Philippa Levine -- White colonialism and sexual modernity : Australian women in the early twentieth century metropolis / Angela Woollacott -- Local colour : the spectacle of race at Niagara Falls / Karen Dubinsky -- Unsettling settlers : colonial migrants and racialised sexuality in interwar Marseilles / Yaèel Simpson Fletcher -- Wanted native views : collecting colonial postcards of India / Saloni Mathur -- Racialising imperial Canada : Indian women and the making of ethnic communities / Enakshi Dua -- Unnecessary crimes and tragedies : race, gender and sexuality in Australian policies of Aboriginal child r emoval / Fiona Paisley -- Gendering the modern : women and home science in British India / Mary Hancock -- Gender and "hyper-masculinity" as p ost-colonial modernity during Indonesia's struggle for independence, 19 45 to 1949 / Frances Gouda -- "Respectability," "modernity" and the pol icing of "culture" in colonial Ceylon / Malathi De Alwis -- Ancient wis dom, modern motherhood : theosophy and the colonial syncretic / Joy Dix on -- The lineage of the "Indian" modern : rhetoric, agency and the Sar da Act in late colonial India / Mrinalini Sinha.