“Professor Boxer considers… the attitudes of the colonists to local women, as domestic servants or prostitutes. He draws his themes together in a final chapter, ‘The cult of Mary and the practice of Misogyny’, in which he shows how exaltation of female chastity, male denigration of women and the claim that for men ‘simple fornication is no sin’ went hand in hand. The book provides an unusual angle from which to view the stresses of emergent colonialism.” (text on dust-wrapper). West 265.
