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...
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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 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780415908900 (0415908906)
Publish date: July 8th 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Feminism,
Culture,
Philosophy,
Sexuality,
Cultural Studies,
Theory,
Gender,
European History,
Gender And Sexuality,
Race
One of the books I had to read for postcolonial lit. course in grad school. We used it to put some of the literary works we read in class into context.
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