Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
A Gender, Nonfiction, Feminism book. From the outset, people's experiences of desire and rage, memory and power, community and revolt...
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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- Pages: 464 pages
- ISBN: 9780415908900 / 415908906
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Pushing upstream, the colonials are figured as traveling backward into anachronistic space: Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world. We were wanderers on prehistoric earth. We were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone. Within the trope of anachronistic space, the boilermans mimetic failure is less a discursive dilemma than a familiar element of the colonial progress narrative. Inhabiting the cusp of prehistory and imperial modernity, the improved specimen is seen as the living... At this point, another trope makes its appearance. It can be called the invention of anachronistic space, and it reached full authority as an administrative and regulatory technology in the late Victorian era. Within this trope, the agency of women, the colonized and the industrial working class are disavowed and projected onto anachronistic space: prehistoric, atavistic and irrational, inherently out of place in the historical time of modernity.According to the colonial version of this trope, imperial progress across the space of empire is figured as... From the outset, people's experiences of desire and rage, memory and power, community and revolt are inflected and mediated by the institutions through which they find their meaning - and which they, in turn, transform. Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest //
Knew it was going to be great, but was totally sold when I saw that basically all her captions are joke captions. Ace. there's some brilliant food for thought here. deducting one star because the author does not use serial commas. ha! just kidding. (...MAYBE??) it's really because i remain somewhat ambivalent about psychoanalysis in/of/through history (while still acknowledging its usefulness). her rereading of freud's oedipal theory is freaking awesome,... Chapter 3 -- the remarkable true story of Hannah Cullwick who insisted that female domestic labour was worth something more than the Victorians acknowledged and so demanded a wage from her 'husband' and never bore him children. McClintock is brilliant when she is describing the work that went into being idle and how that work (and its...
