Imperial leather : race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest

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Imperial leather : race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest

Anne McClintock

Routledge, 1995

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-433) and index

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Volume

: hard ISBN 9780415908894

Description

This text 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 recent 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. It explores the sexualizing of terra incognita, the imperial myth of the empty land, the dirt fetish and civilizing mission, sexuality and labour, advertising and commodity racism, the Victorian invention of the idle woman, feminism and racial difference, and anti-apartheid culture in the current transformation of rational power. Using feminist, post-colonial, psychoanalytic and socialist theories, it argues that the categories of gender, race and class do not exist in isolation, but in intimate relation to one another. The book draws on diverse cultural forms - novels, diaries, oral histories, poetry and advertising.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Introduction - postcolonialism and the angel of progress. Part 2 Empire of the home
  • the lay of the land - genealogies of imperialism
  • "Massa" and maids - power and desire in the imperial metropolis
  • imperial leather - race, cross-dressing the the cult of domesticity
  • psychoanalysis, race and female fetishism. Part 3 Double crossings: 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. Part 4 Dismantling the master's house: 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.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415908900

Description

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.

Table of Contents

I. Empire of the Home 1. The Lay of the Land 2. "Massa and Maids 3. Imperial Leather 4. Psychoanalysis, Race and Female Fetish II. Double Crossings 5. Soft-Soaping Empire 6. The White Family of Man 7. Olive Schreiner III. Dismantling the Master's House 8. The Scandal of Hybridity 9. "Azikwelwa" (We Will Not Ride) 10. No Longer in a Future Heading

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