Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule

Name: Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule
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ISBN: 9780520231115

ISBN-10: 0520231112

ISBN-13: 9780520231115

Edition: 2002

Authors: Ann Laura Stoler

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Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one, Stoler shows that matters of the intimate were absolutely central to imperial politics. It was, after all, in the intimate sphere of home and servants that European children learned what they were required to learn of place and race. Gender-specific sexual sanctions, too, were squarely at the heart of imperial rule, and European supremacy was asserted in terms of national and racial virility. Stoler looks…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 341
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Illustrations



Genealogies of the Intimate: Movements in Colonial Studies



Rethinking Colonial Categories: European Communities and the Boundaries of Rule



Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender and Morality in the Making of Race



Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: Cultural Competence and the Dangers of Metissage



A Sentimental Education: Children on the Imperial Divide



A Colonial Reading of Foucault: Bourgeois Bodies and Racial Selves



Memory-Work in Java: A Cautionary Tale


Epilogue: Caveats on Comfort Zones and Comparative Frames


Notes


Bibliography


Index