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

"Anne McClintock's 'Imperial Leather' takes a prominent place among a number of recent works, including Edward W. Said's 'Culture and Imperialism', that question the relegation of the imperial enterprise to the back benches of the Victorian sensibility....the imperial enterprise and its implications were repressed or split off. In her reckoning, colonized peoples embodied the dark and contradictory underside of Victorianism that when not hidden away was visible only through an exotic iconography of degeneracy and debasement. 'Imperial Leather' places the racial politics of imperialism at the imaginative center of Victorian life."McClintock, Anne is the author of 'Imperial Leather Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest', published 1995 under ISBN 9780415908900 and ISBN 0415908906.