Imperial leather : race, gender, and sexuality in the colonial contest / Anne McClintock.
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 an...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
1995.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 449 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-433) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781135209100 1135209103 9781135209117 1135209111 9780203699546 0203699548 1135209065 1138835056 9781138835054 1299953611 9781299953611 9781135209063 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |
| Host Item Entry: | Humanities e-book. |