Imperial Leather Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest

Name: Imperial Leather Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
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ISBN: 9780415908900

ISBN-10: 0415908906

ISBN-13: 9780415908900

Edition: 1995

Authors: Anne Mcclintock

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Imperial Leatherchronicles 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. Anne McClintock explores the sexualizing of theterra incognita,the imperial myth of the empty lands, the dirt fetish and the "civilizing mission", sexuality and labor, advertising and commodity racism, the Victorian…

Book details

List price: $62.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 7/6/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.29" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Postcolonialism and the Angel of Progress



Empire of the Home



The Lay of the Land: Genealogies of Imperialism



"Massa" and Maids: Power and Desire in the Imperial Metropolis



Imperial Leather: Race, Cross-dressing and the Cult of Domesticity



Psychoanalysis, Race and Female Fetishism



Double Crossings



Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising



The White Family of Man: Colonial Discourse and the Reinvention of Patriarchy



Oliver Schreiner: The Limits of Colonial Feminism



Dismantling the Master's House



The Scandal of Hybridity: Black Women's Resistance and Narrative Ambiguity



"Azikwelwa" (We Will Not Ride): Cultural Resistance in the Desperate Decades



No Longer in a Future Heaven: Nationalism, Gender and Race


Postscript: The Angel of Progress


Notes


List of Illustrations


Index