States of undress: Nakedness and the colonial imagination

Victorian Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 189-219

  Levine, Philippa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLOTHING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POLITICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CLOTHING; COLONIALISM; CULTURE; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; POLITICS;

EID: 60950562971     PISSN: 00425222     EISSN: 15272052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/VIC.2008.50.2.189     Document Type: Article

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