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

By Anne McClintock

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415908906
• ISBN13: 9780415908900
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

It was fascinating!

I don't agree with the reviewer for Library Journal because I found McClintock's book thorough and solid. She situates the book in a very clever way in the myriad of "isms" and scholarly debates on post-colonialism. She argues that one cannot talk about colonialism without at the same time investigate how gender,race, sexuality, class etc, has shaped the colonial discourse and discussion.I would recommend this book to people interested in feminist, gender, postcolonial studies but also to anyone who wants a more indepth and creative analysis of the current debate on postcolonialism and gender.