Shades with a grievance

[Dave Monroe]

And see as well ...

McClintock, Anne.  Imperial Leather: Race,
   Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Conquest.
   New York: Routledge, 1994.

"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 explores the sexualizing of the terra
incognita, the imperial myth of the empty lands, the
dirt fetish and the "civilizing mission", sexuality
and labor, advertising and commodity racism, the
Victorian invention of the idle woman, feminism and
racial difference, and anti-apartheid culture in the
current transformation of national power.

"Using feminist, post-colonial, psychoanalytic and
socialist theories, Imperial Leather argues that the
categories of gender, race and class do not exist in
isolation, but emerge in intimate relation to one
another. Drawing on diverse cultural forms--novels,
advertising, diaries, poetry oral history, and mass
commodity spectacle--the book examines imperialism not
only as a poetics of ambivalence, but as a politics of
violence. Rejecting traditional binaries of
self/other, man/woman, colonizer/colonized, Anne
McClintock calls instead for a more informed and
complex understanding of catgories of social power and
identity."

http://www.routledge-ny.com/books.cfm?isbn=0415908906

--- cathy ramirez <cathyramirez69 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Double Crossings: Madness, Sexuality and Imperialism
> By Anne McClintock 
>
http://www.ronsdalepress.com/catalogue/doublecrossings.html



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