Imperial leather
Subtitle: race, gender, and sexuality in the colonial contest
By: Anne McClintock.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
Subjects: Commonwealth of Nations -- History; Man-woman relationships -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History; Sex role -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History; Sex -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Race relations
Description: 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. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-433) and index.