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

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.

Author: Anne McClintock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 07/06/1995
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.16w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780415908900

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/1995 pg. 94
New York Times 08/20/1995 pg. 19

About the Author

Anne McClintock is an Associate Professor of English at Columbia University, and a SSRC-MacArthur Fellow. She is the author of monographs on Simone DeBeauvoir and Olive Schreiner, and has written for a number of publications on issues of gender and sexuality, including CriticalInquiry, Boundary 11, The Village Voice, and The New YorkTimes Book Review.