Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power
Subtitle: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780520231115
Subjects: Anthropology; Colonization & independence; Gender studies; Racism & racial discrimination; Social history; World - Colonial Studies; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Europe; Social Science; Sociology; Race relations; History / General; Ethnic Studies - General; Anthropology - General; Human Geography; Colonies; Imperialism; Sex customs
First sentence: In 1929, one of the principal architects of French colonial educational policy, Georges Hardy, warned a group of prospective functionaries that "A man remains a man as long as he stays under the gaze of a woman of his race".