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Imperial leather : race, gender, and sexuality in the colonial contest / Anne McClintock.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: McClintock, Anne, 1954- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 1995.
Subjects:
Commonwealth of Nations > History.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century.
Man-woman relationships > Colonies > Great Britain > History.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 20th century.
Sex role > Colonies > Great Britain > History.
Great Britain > Colonies > Race relations.
Sex > Colonies > Great Britain > History.
Commonwealth of Nations.
British colonies.
Race relations.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: postcolonialism and the angel of progress
  • 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
  • Soft-soaping empire: commodity racism and imperial advertising
  • The white family of man: colonial discourse and the reinvention of patriarchy
  • Olive Schreiner: the limits of colonial feminism
  • 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.

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