Imperial Leather

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 imper...

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.

Anne McClintock is the Simone de Beauvoir Chair of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Her groundbreaking study, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (1995), has had a major impact on our thinking in the areas of colonial and post-colonial studies and in cultural analyses of representations of race, gender and sexuality. S...

Anne McClintock is the Simone de Beauvoir Chair of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Her groundbreaking study, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (1995), has had a major impact on our thinking in the areas of colonial and post-colonial studies and in cultural analyses of representations of race, gender and sexuality. She has edited many collections of essays of post-colonial theory and on the sex industry, most notably Queer Transexions of Race, Nation, and Gender (1997). At present she is working on a collection of essays on commercial sex, provisionally entitled Screwing the System.