Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest

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Routledge, Oct 1, 2013 - Art - 464 pages

Imperial 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.

 

Contents

Acknowledgments
THE LAY OF THE LAND
MASSA AND MAIDS
IMPERIAL LEATHER
PSYCHOANALYSIS RACE AND FEMALE FETISHISM
SOFTSOAPING EMPIRE
THE WHITE FAMILY OF
OLIVE SCHREINER
THE SCANDAL OF HYBRIDITY
AZIKWELWA WE WILL NOT RIDE
POSTSCRIPT
List of Illustrations
Index
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Anne McClintock is an Associate Professor of English at Columbia University, and a SSRC-MacArthur Fellow. She is the author of monographs on Simone DeBeauvoir and Olive Schreiner, and has written for a number of publications on issues of gender and sexuality, including CriticalInquiry, Boundary 11, The Village Voice, and The New YorkTimes Book Review.

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