The White Women's Protection Ordinance: Sexual Anxiety and Politics in Papua by Amirah Inglis 1975 RARE Hardcover with Dust Jacket
In January 1926 the Papuan administration passed the White Women's Protection Ordinance - a piece of savagely discriminatory legislation which provided the death penalty for rape or attempted rape upon a European woman or girl. Only a few months earlier the Lieutenant-Governor Sir Hubert Murray had declared that attacks on white women were rare and that there had never been one 'which remotely suggested an intention to commit rape'. Amirah Inglis, in this brilliant study, has attempted to explain the passage of this remarkable Ordinance. She suggests that it was the pinnacle of a structure of caste legislation, based upon the conviction, held by the most cultivated, enlightened and humane white men of the time, that the Papuans they ruled over were an inferior race.....
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