Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial ContestImperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power. |
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Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest Anne Mcclintock Limited preview - 2013 |
Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest Anne McClintock No preview available - 1995 |
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