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

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1995
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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.

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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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 14 Sep 1995
ISBN 10: 0415908906
ISBN 13: 9780415908900

Media Reviews

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 Books
Imperial Leather is a wonderful book.
- Women's Review of Books
McClintock's magisterial study...is a daring articulation of the race-class-gender triad.
- Choice
Anne McClintock's Imperial Leather takes a prominent place among a number of recent works...that question the relegation of the imperial enterprise to the back benches of the Victorian sensibility....Ms. McClintock's astute reading of novels, diaries, and advertisements, among other sources, demonstrates how images of domestic life can be incorporated into an ideology of imperial domination.
- The New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

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.