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

By:

McClintock, Anne

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: USA; Routledge; 1995Description: 464pISBN:

9780415908900

Subject(s):

DA10-18.2 History of Great Britain- British Empire

DDC classification:

305.3'0941-- dc20

LOC classification:

DA16.M37

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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	SAF Reference Library	World History	DA10-18.2 131.54 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available

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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