Title Imperial Leather : Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (463 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Postcolonialism and the Angel of Progress; 1 EMPIRE OF THE HOME; 1 THE LAY OF THE LAND Genealogies of Imperialism; 2 ""MASSA"" AND MAIDS Power and Desire in the Imperial Metropolis; 3 IMPERIAL LEATHER Race, Cross-dressing and the Cult of Domesticity; 4 PSYCHOANALYSIS, RACE AND FEMALE FETISHISM; 2 DOUBLE CROSSINGS; 5 SOFT-SOAPING EMPIRE Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising; 6 THE WHITE FAMILY OF MAN Colonial Discourse and the Reinvention of Patriarchy 7 OLIVE SCHREINER The Limits of Colonial Feminism3 DISMANTLING THE MASTER'S HOUSE; 8 THE SCANDAL OF HYBRIDITY Black Women's Resistance and Narrative Ambiguity; 9 ""AZIKWELWA"" (WE WILL NOT RIDE) Cultural Resistance in the Desperate Decades; 10 NO LONGER IN A FUTURE HEAVEN Nationalism, Gender and Race; POSTSCRIPT The Angel of Progress; Notes; List of Illustrations; Index 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 Notes Print version record Subject Man-woman relationships -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History Sex -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History Sex role -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History British colonies Race relations SUBJECT Commonwealth of Nations -- History Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century Great Britain -- Colonies -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056653 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781135209117 1135209111

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