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This talk uses interpretive methods to investigate the relationship between hetero/mono-normativity in Myanmar and legacies of British colonialism. Ultimately, Arends aims to understand how British colonizers regulated and legislated sex work in segregated “Rangoon”—Yangon—to construct, enforce and impose hierarchical categories of gender, sex and race upon Indigenous and migrant women. She will focus primarily on the nineteenth century expansion of the Cantonment Acts of 1864 and 1868 and the Contagious Diseases Act of 1864 from India into “British Burma.”

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