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    Gender Differences in Colonial Powers

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    This 5 page paper considers how the gender differences between the central areas of colonial power and the peripheries differed at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. The paper begins by looking at the gender inequalities and developments in the colonial powers at this time, and then looks at how they differed in the outlying regions. The bibliography cites 3 sources.

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    Gender have evolved then we seen not only a trend for the overall perceptions, but also regional variations, where the cultures and practices are different. This can be seen as  not in relation to the laws or the practices under the government, but as a result of the geographical location, with remoteness giving the periphery areas a much slower level  of evolution, mixed with the necessities. If we rook at civilisation that are well established, such as Europe and the gender roles at the end of the late ninetieth and  early twentieth century there are some surprising differences. If we look to the period between 1860 and 1880 then there are some  major changes in social attitudes, regarding the role of the genders and sex. This can be seen as a reflection of the changing social attitudes of the time, which in  turn were influenced by events class, race, nationalism, and imperialism, which in turn would reflect on the way that different people were seen. This was occurring mostly within the major  cities or metropolitan areas. The changes would emanate outwards, but this took time and the changes would also alter as they moved outwards.  When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the loss of colonial power was well established, 1856 had seen the loss of  Australia with the granting of power to an Australian government (Reuters, 1997). However, in India there would it be such as easy hand over of power, the 1857 mutiny  had been put down, with very few subsequent problems (Gilmour, 1997). Therefore, there was a very powerful nationalistic feeling by the maker contingent of the community, here there was wide 

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