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Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
Anne McClintock
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Description for Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
Paperback. This chronicles the interrelation of gender, class and race which shaped British imperialism and, subsequently, its bloody dismantling. Num Pages: 464 pages, 50ill. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBTB; HBTQ; JFC; JFSJ; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 784.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Weight
665g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415908900
SKU
V9780415908900
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Ref
99-1
About Anne McClintock
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 Critical Inquiry, Boundary 11, The Village Voice, and The New York Times Book Review.
Reviews for Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
The author and Routledge are to be congratulated on a big, beautiful book that many students of the history of sexuality will find alluring. - Journal of the History of Sexuality Imperial Leather is what an academic book ought to be: intelligent, informed, socially committed, engaged, and engaging. - Women's Review of ... Read more